Hanover Ceremony Marks First-Day Webster Stamp

FEDERAL, state, and local officials joined College representatives in ceremonies the afternoon of September 22 marking the issuance of a postal stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dartmouth College Case, successfully argued by Daniel Webster. The date of issue coincided with the start of the 1969-70 academic year.

David A. Nelson, general counsel of the Post Office Department, delivered the principal address of the program held in the Center Theater, Hopkins Center. Thomas J. Mclntyre '37, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, who was instrumental in gaining authorization for the stamp, was also a featured speaker. Other participants were New Hampshire Governor Walter R. Peterson Jr. '47; Trustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23 of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the Bicentennial Executive Committee; and President Dickey. Before the ceremony, invited guests visited the recently restored Webster Cottage, where Daniel Webster lived as a student, at the invitation of the Hanover Historical Society.

Beginning in mid-July the Hanover Post Office received several hundred requests daily for first-day covers of the Dartmouth College Case stamp. Hanover Postmaster Ives Atherton '24 arranged for a substation to be set up in the lobby of the Hopkins Center on the afternoon of September 22 where the new commemorative stamps could be purchased and cancelled. A total of 120 million Dartmouth College Case stamps were printed, and they are available in post offices throughout the nation. The Third-Century Fund, which is launching its general alumni campaign this fall, made a first-day cover mailing to the entire Dartmouth alumni body.