Trustees and Council Hold Joint Meeting
DARTMOUTH'S Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth Alumni Council met in Hanover for a combined program on the weekend of January 13-15. It was the fourth such joint meeting, at two-year intervals, since this plan was recommended by the TPC Committee on Alumni Relations.
This year's program included one joint session, addressed by President Dickey; a joint dinner in Alumni Hall of Hopkins Center; and separate sessions of the two bodies.
Morrison G. Tucker '32, president of the Alumni Council, presided at Friday morning's joint meeting. As principal speaker President Dickey outlined current planning for Dartmouth's upcoming Bicentennial and divided this into three principal areas: (1) the final five years of the 15-year TPC program launched in 1954-55, (2) the actual observance of the Bicentennial in the years 1968 to 1971, and (3) the major capital gifts campaign that will be mounted to mark Dartmouth's entry into its third century.
Three Trustees who also spoke about these areas in which they respectively have leading roles were Dudley W. Orr '29, chairman of the Trustees Planning Committee; Harvey P. Hood '18, who has accepted the chairmanship of the Bicentennial Executive Committee (see Page 13); and Charles J. Zimmerman '23, chairman of the Trustee Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs. Important news in connection with the capital fund campaign was the announcement that Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, chairman of the 1965 and 1966 Alumni Funds, has accepted the national chairmanship of this greatest fund effort in Dartmouth's history (see Page 13).
Substantive planning for the final five years of the TPC program is being directed, according to President Dickey, to faculty compensation, library resources, financial aid, educational programs and, to a lesser degree, physical plant. Supplementary remarks were made by Trustee John D. Dodd '22, chairman of the TPC subcommittee on faculty compensation, and Trustee Thomas B. Curtis '32, chairman of the TPC subcommittee on financial aid.
At Friday night's joint dinner, the principal speaker was Dean Myron Tribus of Thayer School, who described the new direction which engineering education at Dartmouth is now taking. As dramatic illustrations of his remarks, sophomores in the engineering design course demonstrated an organ that can be played by the handicapped, and seniors in a methods engineering course demonstrated their invention for speeding up production and reducing the cost of cables used in electronic equipment.
The dinner was the occasion also for conferring the Alumni Council's highest Dartmouth Alumni Award on Edmund H. Booth 'lB, Roger C. Wilde '21, and Charles F. Moore Jr. '25. The story of these awards appears on the following page.
The Alumni Council had its own sessions on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, while the Trustees were meeting in the President's Room in Parkhurst Hall. Forty of the Council's fifty members from all over the country were in attendance, plus an equal number of former members. Ten working committees of the Council met either Thursday night or at breakfast and lunch during the next two days.
