Understatement: A Busy Summer
MORE persons took part in classes, conferences, institutes, seminars, training programs, and research activities on the Dartmouth campus this past summer than ever before - with a corresponding record use of the College's living and educational facilities for this "off season" period.
Enrollment in the coeducational undergraduate courses offered in "the summer term" climbed to 470, a 12 percent advance over 1965, making this the largest fourth-term group in the four years of the program. In addition, some 152 other students, both graduate and undergraduate, were in residence for an eleven-week period to work on research projects in the various science departments.
Two Peace Corps units were in residence on campus. The Advanced Training Program for volunteers preparing to serve as "Teachers and Community Development Workers for French-Speaking West Africa" had 67 young men and women while the training program for "Health Education/Social Welfare" volunteers who leave this fall for Senegal and Ivory Coast numbered 80. The College was also responsible for off-campus Peace Corps activities in Canada for 108 second-year trainees in the French-Speaking West Africa program and in nearby Vershire, Vt., for 67 trainees who will work as teams in India, specializing in poultry raising, gardening, nursing and nutrition, and community health.
The 1966 Alumni College contributed to the total with a record attendance of 240 alumni and wives, and 115 children, participating in the two weeks of liberal arts study in the earth sciences, economics, literature, and sociology. Profs. James F. Cusick, Robert W. Decker, Robert Sokol, and Harold L. Bond '42, the principal lecturers, were assisted by fifteen discussion leaders enlisted from the College faculty. One of several special events related to the program was an evening lecture by Paul Goodman, the controversial author of one of the books included in the pre-Alumni College reading.
Special institutes for secondary school teachers of Russian and American history were attended by a total of 87 persons. Other institutes brought to the campus twelve women from Senegal and Ivory Coast who, under the auspices of the African American Institute, studied American methods in the field of social work; 31 engineers to participate in Thayer School's program on Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer; and 30 college teachers of physics for a program on Oscillations and Waves, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and directed by Prof. Allen King, physics.
Three groups of business executives spent periods of two weeks or more in special courses. Fourteen middle management executives from the American Telephone and Telegraph were involved in an eight-week liberal arts program directed by Prof. Arthur Jensen, English, with instruction also by Prof. Francis Gramlich, philosophy, and Prof. Fred Berthold '45, religion. A group of 35 bankers attended a four-week program similar to Alumni College, sponsored by the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks; and 256 other business executives attended the two-week Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management conducted at the Tuck School.
Ten conferences, most of which ran several days, included an American Association for the Advancement of Science study of recommendations for future curriculum offerings in the sciences, a similar program sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and supported by the Carnegie Foundation for studies in English, a Pharmaceutical Marketing Executive Conference sponsored by Tuck School, a computer program at Thayer School, an orientation to an American campus for 54 students from African countries, meetings of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers and of the National Council of Arts in Education, a Medical School conference on reproduction and birth defects, a group of 250 at Thayer School for a "State of the Art Appraisal" of bearings, and the Vermont-New Hampshire School of Banking which held its classes at Tuck School.
Many of the students in the regular classes and institutes and many of the conference vistors took advantage of the theatre, music, and fine arts offerings at the Hopkins Center's 1966 Congregation of the Arts. The large audiences, drawn from the Upper Connecticut Valley area as well as the campus, enjoyed the three high quality dramatic productions - Julius Caesar, The Servant of TwoMasters, and Take Care of Amelia. Three of the principal professional actors in the Repertory Company, Edgar Daniels, Louis Turenne, and Wyman Pendleton, were as capable in their second year with the company as they were in the first. In addition, the apprentice members of the Repertory Company acted in an original drama, A Cold Day in Hell, written by stage manager Otis Bigelow.
The music offerings in Spaulding Auditorium were varied, with weekly symphony and chamber concerts featuring the compositions of composers-in-residence Boris Blacher, Witold Lutoslawski, and Peter Mennin. As in previous years, the summer music program under Prof. Mario di Bonaventura received attention in magazines and newspapers far from Hanover, attracting music lovers to Hopkins Center from far afield.
Although the campus is more green than Big Green during the summer, the work of the College goes on —in new forms, with new faces. Even the campus veterans who can recall the "Closed for Business" summers of the not-too-distant past take the new activity for granted now - and they seem to enjoy it all.
During Alumni College President Dickeyjoins students in a coffee break. Picturedin the middle is Pete Fitzherbert '36.
Repertory players Wyman Pendleton andSloane Shelton show their virtuosity indiverse roles in (top) Julius Caesar and(bottom) The Servant of Two Masters, an18th century harlequin comedy.
Repertory players Wyman Pendleton andSloane Shelton show their virtuosity indiverse roles in (top) Julius Caesar and(bottom) The Servant of Two Masters, an18th century harlequin comedy.
President Johnson awarded the Young American medal to Jon A. Hanshus '69 in aJune White House ceremony. The President said Jon demonstrated "what is bestabout the coming generation of Americans." In the spring of 1964 Jon led a handfulof Eau Claire, Wisconsin, highschoolers in forming a youth employment service,finding more than 700 previously nonexistent jobs. He made speeches and handledemployer interviews, publicity, recruitment, and placement.
