Tuck 1913 Scholarships

The S. Pinkney Tuck 1913 Memorial Fund had been established to provide scholarships at Dartmouth for sons and grandsons of U. S. Foreign Service officers. The fund was made possible by a gift of $75,000 from Mrs. Katherine Whitney Demme Tuck and the Katherine Tuck Fund in memory of her late husband, S. Pinkney Tuck '13, who had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service and in 1944 was appointed the first American Ambassador to Egypt. Earlier he had served in Turkey, Siberia, Hungary, Argentina, France, and a number of other countries. After retirement he served as a director of the Suez Canal Company, the first American to sit on that board. The purpose of the S. Pinkney Tuck 1913 Memorial Fund is to enable young men to serve the country in a manner exemplified by Mr. Tuck's own lifelong career.

The fund will be maintained by the College as an endowment in perpetuity with the income to be used for scholarships to sons or grandsons of Foreign Service officers or, in any year when there is no such student at Dartmouth, to others who have indicated their intention to enter the Foreign Service. These scholarships will perpetuate the S. Pinkney Tuck Scholarships established for this same purpose and formerly supported by annual gifts made by Mr. Tuck to Dartmouth in the years between his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1948 and his death in April 1967 in Paris, where he had made his home for many years. President Dickey described the establishment of the new scholarship fund as "a particularly meaningful memorial to Ambassador Tuck in all ways."