Plans Are Progressing for the Big Year

THE year 1969 seemed far away back in 1954 when the College first began to think seriously of its Bicentennial by forming a Trustees Planning Committee and launching the institutional overhaul that would give Dartmouth "a running start into its third century."

Now, 1969 is almost here, and planning of a different sort - aimed at the appropriate observance and celebration of the College's 200th anniversary — is well under way. In 1954 President Dickey stated that Dartmouth's Bicentennial was going to be something more than a time of self-congratulation, and general plans for the event are in accord with that sentiment; but a 200th birthday is rather special in the life of any institution, and there will be joyous celebration to go along with events related to the educational work and purposes of the College.

Two key committees were named in January 1966 to plan and carry out the Bicentennial program. Harvey P. Hood '18 of Boston, then a Trustee of the College, accepted the chairmanship of the Bicentennial Executive Committee, and Frank Smallwood '51, Professor of Government, became chairman of the Bicentennial Planning Committee, made up of faculty, staff, and student members. Mr. Hood, upon retirement from the Board of Trustees last June, was elected honorary chairman of the Dartmouth Bicentennial and Trustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23, a member of the Executive Committee, became its present chairman.

Two other central figures in the overall planning and execution of the Bicentennial program are A. Alexander Fanelli '42, Special Assistant to President Dickey, who serves as executive secretary of both committees, and Arthur E. Jensen, Professor of English, who serves currently on the Planning Committee and will take on the responsibilities of Bicentennial Program Coordinator upon his retirement in June. Mr. Fanelli's predecessor as executive secretary was Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, now with the Claremont Colleges in California.

Planning for the Bicentennial has been carried out within the lines of a three- part purpose: (1) celebration, involving not only the College's 200th anniversary but also the culmination of 15 years of TPC planning and the completion of the Third Century Fund; (2) education, involving a deeper and broader public understanding of Dartmouth's unique heritage and historic mission and of the role of liberal learning in modern society, as exemplified by Dartmouth; and (3) renewal, involving a rededication to historic purposes, the clarification of new commitments, and the building of new strength by means of the Third Century Fund.

The year 1969-70, beginning with Commencement in June 1969 and culminating in a Third Century Convocation in September 1970, has been designated as the Bicentennial Year. A focal point within the year will be Dartmouth Day on December 13, 1969, the actual 200th anniversary of the granting of the Dartmouth College Charter by King George III of Great Britain. In all three terms of that academic year symposia will be held on the general theme of "Liberal and Professional Learning in a Changing Society," with sub-themes concentrating on the sciences in the fall, the humanities in the winter, and the social sciences in the spring. Other special events in 1969 and 1970 as tentatively planned are listed in the schedule printed on this page.

Before the Bicentennial Year arrives, and as a most fitting prelude to it, the College will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case, a landmark in American jurisprudence and the all-important factor in the existence of Dartmouth College in its present, independent form.

Although this coincidental anniversary has a close relationship to the Bicentennial, it will have a commemorative program in its own right. The first event, in Hanover on May 10, 1968, will be the . delivery of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture by Henry J. Friendly of New York City, Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, whose subject will be "The Dartmouth College Case - The Public-Private Penumbra." Established by bequest of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice whose name they bear, the annual Holmes Lectures, usually in the field of constitutional law, have great distinction in the legal world. The selection of Dartmouth as the first institution of higher learning in New England to be awarded the lectures was made by a Permanent Trustees Committee chaired by the Librarian of Congress.

Daniel Webster argued the Dartmouth College Case before the Supreme Court in March 1818 and on February 2, 1819 Chief Justice Marshall gave the Court's decision in favor of the College. On February 2, 1969, in Washington, D. C., the 150th anniversary of the decision will be marked in a special ceremony tentatively scheduled in the old Supreme Court Chamber of the U. S. Capitol. A Dartmouth alumni committee, headed by Judge Carl E. McGowan '32 of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, is planning the event.

It is hoped that a commemorative postage stamp will be issued for the 150 th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case. U. S. Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre '37 of New Hampshire heads the alumni group sponsoring this proposal now before the Postmaster General and his Citizens Advisory Committee. Stamps commemorating the anniversaries of colleges and universities are no longer issued under the present policies of the U. S. Post Office.

The first major Bicentennial event in Hanover will be the Commencement of June 1969, on which occasion it is hoped that Lord Dartmouth will be an honored guest from England. An Earl of Dartmouth has visited the College only once before - in October 1904 the Seventh Earl, with the Countess of Dartmouth and their daughter Lady Dorothy Legge, came to Hanover to lay the cornerstone for the rebuilding of Dartmouth Hall, which had been destroyed by fire. The present Earl, ninth in the family line, inherited the title in 1962.

Special reunions for post-50-year classes are scheduled to be held in June 1969, along with reunions normally scheduled for that time, and one year later, in June 1970, similar reunions will take place for pre-50-year classes. The Bicentennial program at the 1969 Commencement will focus on Dartmouth history; the 1970 Commencement will look ahead to the new challenges of the third century.

Throughout the academic year 1969-70 students and faculty will be fully immersed in the educational part of the Bicentennial program. The three symposia to be devoted to the overall theme of "Liberal and Professional Learning in a Changing Society" will bring many distinguished scholars, artists, and public figures to the Campus, and Dartmouth's own faculty will play a prominent role. Alumni College in the summer of 1969 will be devoted to this same academic theme.

Responsibility for the fall-term symposium, "Science and the Changing Environment," has been assigned to the Division of the Sciences, the Thayer and Medical Schools, and the Kiewit Computation Center. The meeting in Hanover of the National Academy of Science will be one of the special highlights of that fall.

The Division of the Humanities and the Hopkins Center have been assigned responsibility for the winter term symposium on "The Humanities and Changing Values." An intensive Hopkins Center program in all the arts will be mounted in conjunction with the winter plans.

The spring-term symposium, "The Social Sciences and the Changing Community" will be the responsibility of the Division of the Social Sciences and the Tuck School. The New England Political Science Association will hold its Spring 1970 meeting in Hanover.

Plans for the Third Century Convocation in September 1970 are still being shaped. It will be a climactic final event for the whole Bicentennial program, launching Dartmouth into its third century and celebrating, all are confident the successful completion of the Third Century Fund on which so much of the College's future strength and commitment will depend.

Not every event planned for the Bicentennial period has been mentioned in this preliminary report. A variety of special student activities, not yet worked out, will be of great importance in the year's program. Two special Glee Club tours, a May 1969 program recognizing Moor's Indian Charity School in Connecticut, a February 1970 art exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries in New York City, a possible West Coast meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, and the August 1970 anniversary of Eleazar Wheelock's arrival in Hanover are also on the tentative schedule drawn up by Professor Smallwood and his planning committee, and other things will doubtless be sandwiched in as the program is reviewed and refined. Exhibitions and publications are also an important part of this really huge undertaking.

Special musical numbers are being prepared for the Bicentennial tours of the Glee Club, which will also perform at some of the Hanover events.

A great many persons in Hanover and beyond are involved in the Bicentennial planning operations, and many more will join them in carrying out the individual events. The following are members of the committees that have been most actively at work during the past two years:

BICENTENNIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Harvey P. Hood '18, honorary chairman; Charles J. Zimmerman '23, chairman; Dudley W. Orr '29, chairman of the Trustees Planning Committee; James D. Landauer '23, Morrison G. Tucker '32, George I. Davis '28, and Delwyn J. Worthington '26, presidents of the Alumni Council, 1965-1968; Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, chairman of the Third Century Fund; Prof. Frank Smallwood '51; President Dickey; A. Alexander Fanelli '42, executive secretary.

BICENTENNIAL PLANNING COMMITTEE: Prof. Frank Smallwood '51, chairman; Prof. Jere R. Daniel II '55, Dean Albert I. Dickerson '30, Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Edward C. Lathem '51, Prof. Robert Z. 'Norman, John R. Scotford Jr. '38, Gilbert R. Tanis '38, Robert B. Reich '68, Donald B. Elitzer '69, Brent B. Coffin '70, A. Alexander Fanelli '42, executive secretary.

BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITS COMMITTEE: John R. Scotford Jr. '38, chairman; Truman H. Brackett Jr. '55, Kenneth C. Cramer, Peter M. Rainey, Robert G. Chaffee '36, Alfred F. Whiting.

BICENTENNIAL PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: Richard W. Morin '24, chairman; Prof. Francis L. Childs '06, Edward C. Lathem '51, Prof. Stearns Morse, Prof. Ray Nash, Gilbert R. Tanis '38, Charles E. Widmayer '30.

PLANNING LEADERS: Prof. Frank Smallwood '51 (c), chairman of the Bicentennial Planning Committee, with Prof. Arthur E. Jensen (I), who will be Bicentennial Coordinator, and A. Alexander Fanelli '42, Bicentennial executive secretary.

Harvey P. Hood '18, honorary chairmanof the Bicentennial, initiated planning in1966 as head of the executive committee.

Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Bicentennial Executive Committee chairman, with BobReich '68, Don Elitzer '69, and Brent Coffin '70 of the planning committee.

An official emblem for the Bicentennial, shown at the top of the page, was approved by the Bicentennial Executive Committee at its January meeting in Hanover. It was designed by John R. Scotford Jr. '38, Assistant Director of the Hopkins Center, who is serving as chairman of the Bicentennial Exhibits Committee.