IN BRIEF

Gifts to Dartmouth from business and industry rose from $462,522 last year to $471,920 in 1963-64 and brought a ten-year total of corporate support up to $2,919,135. Corporate gifts ten years ago amounted to $87,850, a figure illustrating the dramatic, subsequent growth in this type of support.

The Dartmouth Alumni Council formally has given approval to the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Caribbean (Puerto Rico), the Tidewater Dartmouth Club (Norfolk, Va.), and the Dartmouth Club of Santa Barbara, Calif., making them, respectively, numbers 133, 134, and 135 in what is probably the largest chain of alumni clubs for any college or university in the world.

Robert K. Hage '35, Director of the Office of Financial Aid, was elected for a three-year term to the Board of Trustees of the College Entrance Examination Board. Mr. Hage, who had served on the CEEB's College Scholarship Service Committee and was chairman of its Computation Subcommittee, is the first financial aid officer to be named to the board.

The above named Mr. Hage recently announced that federal government loans to Dartmouth undergraduates for this academic year total a record $305,000. The student loans have been appropriated by the government through the National Defense Student Loans Act. Last year's figure of $221,000 was below the previous high of $250,000 the year before because of delayed Congressional action, Mr. Hage reported.

The chairmen of the three academic divisions of the College who will concomitantly" serve as Associate Deans of the Faculty under Prof. Leonard M. Rieser '44, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the new organization are: Humanities, Norman A. Doenges, Associate Professor of Classics; Social Science, Clyde E. Dankert, Professor of Economics; Science, James F. Hornig, Associate Professor of Chemistry.

The first formal gathering of the College's new Sigma Xi club, an honorary society of research scientists and engineers, was held recently. Prof. Richard Stoiber '32 lectured on his field studies of Central American volcanoes. Membership from the College's faculty and from the engineering and scientific departments of the nearby U.S. Army Cold Regions and Research Engineering Laboratory totals 75 and is by invitation only.

From a recent report of the Committee on Athletics: a total of 545 upperclassmen participated in the activities of eighteen varsity teams in 1963-64; 220 received varsity letters. 457 were on freshman teams and of that number 236 received Class of 1967 numerals. Varsity football had 87 participants; track, 59; soccer, 41; lacrosse, 33; swimming, 27; rowing (heavy), 25; hockey, 24; and baseball and rowing (150 lb.), 23.

Snow geese heading south over Hanover are harbingers of the snow and wintry weather soon to come.