$500,000 Given for Computation Center

A GIFT of $500,000 from Peter Kiewit '22 of Omaha, Nebraska, to be used toward the purchase of a new computer and for the construction of a building to house the College's Computation Center was announced by President Dickey at the Alumni Council's meeting in Hanover last month. The President also disclosed that the Board of Trustees had decided to name the new facility the Kiewit Computation Center in honor of the donor, head of one of the largest construction companies in the world.

"It would be hard to overstate the importance to the College of Mr. Kiewit's gift," Mr. Dickey said. "In addition to the basic educational purposes of the project, it undoubtedly will have a strong and continuing favorable impact on our ability to attract and hold first-rate teacher-scholars in nearly all fields."

Plans for the new Computation Center, announced earlier this year, provide for access to a modern, sophisticated computer by about 75% of all Dartmouth students in every field of study. The installation includes a GE 235 medium-range computer with which sixteen input-output stations around the campus will be connected by teletype. The set-up will permit virtually simultaneous use from all stations by means of a time-sharing system.

The cost of the installation is estimated at $1,500,000. The National Science Foundation earlier made a grant of $300,000 for equipment and installation. The new building will be located next to Bradley Hall, the College's mathematics center. Until it is constructed the Computation Center will be temporarily located in College. Hall.

Mr. Kiewit, whose name the building will bear, is president of Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. His firm has built dams, tunnels, airports, power plants, and the Atomic Energy Commission's $1.2 billion gaseous diffusion plant in Ports-mouth, Ohio. Other major projects include the Thule Air Force Base in Greenland and the Titan and Minuteman missile facilities in several western states.

Mr. Kiewit, holder of Dartmouth's honorary LL.D. degree, is also vice-chairman of the World Publishing Company, publishers of the Omaha WorldHerald. He is a director of many companies and a Regent of the University of Omaha.