Gilman Biomedical Centedicated

THE Charles Oilman Life Sciences Laboratory, five stories of classrooms and laboratories crowned with a rooftop greenhouse, formally entered the life of the College on October 30 - although it had actually been in use since the beginning of the fall term - with a full-day dedicatory program that included scientific symposia, lectures, and formal exercises. The Gilman Biomedical Center, of which the Laboratory is an important part, was formally dedicated at the same time.

Present for the ceremony in which President Dickey presided were Charles Gilman, who gave $1,000,000 toward construction of the $2,350,000 Laboratory, and his two Dartmouth alumni sons, Howard L. Gilman '44 and Charles Gilman Jr. '52. In addition to Mr. Dickey, speakers were Medical School Dean Gilbert H. Mudge and Prof. John H. Copenhaver Jr. '46, Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences. Charles Gilman, called upon by Mr. Dickey, re sponded briefly on behalf of the family. Representatives of the architect, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, contractor Phillip R. Jackson '43, and the chairman of the building committee, Prof. Raymond W. Barratt, were introduced.

Professor Copenhaver presided at the morning symposium on "Environmental Biology" in which papers were presented by Roy P. Forster Jr., Ira Allen Eastman Professor; Assistant Professor of Biology Gene E. Likens; and John F. Reed '33, President of Fort Lewis College. The afternoon symposium, "Modern Studies on the? Cell and Heredity," was presided over by Dean Mudge and included papers by Professor of Cytology Shinya Inoue and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dick Hoefnagel from the Medical School faculty and by Dean James F. Crow of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

The Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory is an impressive addition both in what is contained within its high brick walls and in the campus site chosen for it. The generous support of the Gilmans along with the grant from the National Science Foundation, earmarked for research and training facilities, and thorough planning by the Biological Sciences faculty has provided Dartmouth with 47,000 square feet of frontier territory for educational advances. There are eight large teaching laboratories, two dozen modern constant-temperature and environment rooms, twenty faculty offices each with its own research unit, a lecture hall, seminar rooms, and the closest-to-the-sun green-house in Hanover, if not all New Hampshire - and the equipment to carry out the teaching and research opportunities.

The Life Sciences Laboratory is linked in principle and in fact with three other components of the Gilman Biomedical Center: the new Dana Biomedical Library, Kellogg Auditorium which is situated between the Laboratory and Mary Hitchcock Hospital; and the seven-story Medical Science Building. Strasenburgh Hall, a dormitory for medical students, stands apart on the northern edge of the Center.

President Dickey was speaking about the new Biomedical Center when he said, "We expect this unusual physical proximity to give psychological impetus to closer cooperation among these scientists," but the remark could easily include most others in Dartmouth's science community for the Center is little more than a block away up North College Street from Bradley (mathematics), Steele (chemistry), and Wilder (physics).

Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory is connected by ramp (left) to Kellogg Medical Auditorium and to Medical Science Building (center left) And Dana Biomedical Library (center right) Strxsenburgh Hall (not shown upper right) is fifth Center facility.

The Gilman family at dedication: (from right) Charles Gilman, Howard L.Gilman '44, Mrs. Charles Gilman, Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Gilman Jr. '52.

Prof. John Copenhaver '46 up front in Gilman Laboratory lecture hall.

Prof. William Jackson (r) shows greenhouse to the Gilman family

One of the many well-equipped labs in the new life sciences facility.