PRESIDENT and Mrs.

PRESIDENT and Mrs. Dickey during their visit to Japan in late March and early April had a nine-day stay in Kurashiki, where the second Dartmouth Conference on Japanese-American Relations was held under the joint sponsorship of the College and the International House of Japan, with financial support by The Ford Foundation. In the photograph above the Dickeys are shown looking at the view of the Seto Island Sea from the top of Mt. Washiba, near Kurashiki.

In his talk to the Dartmouth class officers in Hanover on May 2, President Dickey described some of his experiences as chairman of the American delegation to the conference. These face-to-face meetings, he said, are an important means of achieving better understanding between educators, business men, journalists, and artists on both sides.

Upon his return to this country in midApril, President Dickey entered upon a busy schedule, leading off with the annual spring meeting of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. He was at the University ceive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at a convocation marking the dedication of the university's new 13-story library. In the words of the citation, the degree was conferred:

"On a college president, who, oddly enough, devotes almost all of his time to education, one whose insight and drive has helped higher education in America face up to its contemporary task. As the able administrator of one of the country's oldest and noblest private colleges he has greatly strengthened its resources and its structures. But most of all he has quickened its mental life by his challenging insistence on public service, student responsibility and the virtues of democracy, qualities he has best exemplified in his own person."