$250,000 to Medical School

The Medical School has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts for expanding and strengthening its medical teaching. It was one of 30 medical schools in the nation to share in a $10 million distribution for faculty development. Under the terms of the grant, Dartmouth will receive $50,000 annually for the next five years. The funds are intended to provide money for adequate salaries to help attract and retain promising young physicians as full-time faculty members.

Selection of medical schools for the Richard King Mellon grants was made on the basis of need, demonstrated excellence, and location. All the recipients are private medical schools, and since there are 45 such schools in the United States, the support will go to almost threefourths of the total. Since 1945 more than $57 million has been contributed to medicine through grants and gifts by Lt. Gen. Richard King Mellon, Pittsburgh financier, and Mrs. Mellon, including $6.35 million for medical faculty salaries in 1963-67.