A Full Summer Ahead

Hanover this summer will again be a busy place. Besides the 500 or more students enrolled in the fourth term and the 150 disadvantaged youths participating in the ABC and Bridge Programs, ten college sophomores will be at the Medical School participating in a new tutorial program. These students from Dartmouth, Williams, Brandeis, Tufts, Columbia, and Yale have been selected because of their demonstrated interest in medicine as a career. Four students from the Medical School will work closely with the undergraduates throughout the eight-week program. Several mornings a week will be devoted to tutoring the students who are encountering difficulty in premedical course work. Another portion of the program will introduce the students to bio-medical research through participation in simple laboratory experiments. And finally, to acquaint the prospective doctors with clinical medicine, they will accompany physicians on daily work rounds in the area hospitals and psychiatric unit and go with public health nurses on their visits to private homes.

Hundreds of other "students" will be attending the various conferences and institutes to be held at Dartmouth this summer. Many will be teachers. Again this year the Cooperative College-School Science Program will draw about 30 elementary school science teachers to the campus from July 28 to August 22 for an introduction to new science teaching materials. Thirty-five high school teachers will attend a new program organized by Prof. Donald A. Campbell, Director of Teacher Preparation. Entitled "Teacher Institute on Evaluation, Individualized Instruction, and Teaching Strategies," it will run from June 30 to July 25.

Thayer School will offer three summer courses. Decision Analysis for Engineers and Scientists (June 30 to July 11) will emphasize practical techniques to minimize uncertainty and risk in science and engineering. For the second year a course in Reverse Osmosis as applied to the desalination process will be offered July 7-18, and then in August (4-9) Engineering Design will be given.

The American Chemical Society is holding a three-part conference at the College during July: 6-7, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy; 9-10, Gas Chromatography; and 12-13, Modern Organic Synthesis. Some 400 people are expected to attend the sessions. As soon as the chemists leave, their places will be taken by the 150 persons attending the Pharmaceutical Conference, July 20-27, and the 250 doctors coming for the Fourth Leucocyte Culture Conference, July 26-28.

Among the groups that will be back again this summer are the two-week Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Tuck School and the AT&T Management Objectives month- long program.