Variety Is the Word for Summer
COME September, variety may vie with quality when the summing-uppers seek the catchword to describe the 1964 summer session at Dartmouth.
Certainly there will be assembled as varied a "student body" as the campus has ever held - alumni with a yen for eleven days of concentrated study, secondary-school pupils from deprived backgrounds, business executives, researchers in science, Russian language teachers, talented young musicians, senior-year students from 150 different colleges with a common interest in serving the Peace Corps in French-speaking West Africa, Summer Term undergraduates from Dartmouth and elsewhere - all, with one large exception, in programs especially planned for them.
The large exception, of course, will be made up of the more than 350 undergraduate men and women who are expected on June 28 to enroll in the regular Summer Term. They will pick their two courses from 72 different offerings in 23 academic departments and will receive their instruction (for the most part) from members of the Dartmouth faculty. The enrollment this year is expected to jump by 100 to 150 students.
The special music program which is a related part of the Summer Term will have an increase in enrollment from 56 to 90. Frances Mann, recently retired after fifty years as a teacher at Juilliard School of Music, will again be co-director of the program. Highlighting music in the Hopkins Center will be world premieres of works by composers Walter Piston and Vincent Persichetti, while they are in residence, and played by the Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Prof. Mario di Bonaventura. Two other composers, Carlos Chavez and Henry Cowell, will also be in residence for short periods this summer. The orchestra will include 21 artist-teachers and 80 music students.
Another major feature of the Congregation of the Arts at the Hopkins Center is the Repertory Theatre, with an enlarged company for this second summer season and with more performances planned (see schedule at right). The 26-member company includes six professional actors - John Wynne-Evans (a favorite in '63), David Ford, Jane MacLeod, Tani Seitz, William Shust, and Larry Swanson - and twenty specially selected drama students.
Exhibits in the Center's four art galleries and sculpture court, a film series, and photographic shows are also scheduled.
The largest of the special groups will be the last to arrive on campus - the Alumni College with some 250 alumniand-wife students opens on August 16. A faculty of four lecturers and ten seminar leaders will lead the participants (hope-fully fired with the pre-session reading of eight assigned books) through a vigorous eleven-day schedule.
The Credit School, second in size among special groups, opens two weeks earlier than Alumni College and closes on August 15. Enrollment is 200.
Although one of the summer's smaller programs, A.B.C. (for A Better Chance) will draw as much, if not more, attention than most others. For two months 54 boys, mostly Negroes, will receive concentrated instruction in basic studies to prepare them to go on to first-rate private schools and from there to opportunities in higher education.
The largest of the special groups in residence for the full two months, June 28 to August 22, will be the Peace Corps training program for senior-year students who have volunteered for service in French-speaking West Africa. Under the guidance of 40-plus instructors - in language, West African culture and history, outdoor survival, physical education, and other areas - these 150 young men and women will "live French" in their dormitories, at meal times, and about town.
The Science Researchers Program will bring another 145 special students to work in the College's laboratories, 54 executives will attend one or the other of two two-week "refresher" programs in the liberal arts for bankers, and the Management Objectives program will have fifteen participants. The Experiment for International Living and the Piano Teachers Conference will have small groups on campus for a short time.
Summer Schedule of Plays and Concerts in Hopkins Center
July 1 Concert, Dartmouth Chamber Ensemble; world premiere of Walter Piston quartet.
July 4 Concert, Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra; world premiere of Walter Piston concerto.
July 8 Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
July 9 Play, Shakespeare's As You Like It.
July 10 Play, As You Like It.
July 11 Play, As You Like It.
July 12 Concert, Symphony Orchestra.
July 15 Play, Ionesco's Rhinoceros. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
July 16 Play, Rhinoceros.
July 17 Play, As You Like It.
July 18 Play, Rhinoceros.
July 19 Concert, Symphony Orchestra.
July 22 Play, As You Like It. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
July 23 Play, Rhinoceros.
July 24 Play, Rhinoceros.
July 25 Play, As You Like It.
July 26 Concert, Symphony Orchestra.
July 29 Play, Rhinoceros. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
July 30 Play, As You Like It.
July 31 Play, As You Like It.
Aug. 1 Play, Rhinoceros.
Aug. 2 Concert, Symphony Orchestra; world premiere of Vincent Persichetti piano concerto.
Aug. 4 Play, Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem.
Aug. 5 Play, Beaux' Stratagem. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
Aug. 6 Play, As You Like It.
Aug. 7 Play, Rhinoceros.
Aug. 8 Play, As You Like It, matinee. Play, Beaux' Stratagem.
Aug. 9 Play, Beaux' Stratagem, matinee. Concert, Symphony Orchestra.
Aug. 11 Play, As You Like It.
Aug. 12 Play, Beaux' Stratagem. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
Aug. 13 Play, Rhinoceros.
Aug. 14 Play, Beaux' Stratagem.
Aug. 15 Play, Beaux' Stratagem, matinee. Play, Rhinoceros.
Aug. 16 Concert, Symphony Orchestra. Play, Rhinoceros, matinee.
Aug. 18 Play, Beaux' Stratagem.
Aug. 19 Play, As You Like It. Concert, Chamber Ensemble.
Aug. 20 Play, Beaux' Stratagem.
Aug. 21 Play, Rhinoceros.
Aug. 22 Play, As You Like It, matinee. Play, Beaux' Stratagem. Concert, Symphony Orchestra with the Dartmouth Summer Chorus.
Plays: Evenings 8:30, matinees 2:30; Concerts: 8:30 p.m.
