The Dickeys Get Resettled
President Emeritus John Sloan Dickey and Mrs. Dickey, who have been away from Hanover for most of the past seven months, will return in October and take up permanent residence in their new Lyme Road home. They were in town September 8 to vote in the New Hampshire primary, and the Alumni Magazine seized the opportunity to take these pictures and to catch up with news of the Dickeys.
Mr. Dickey, who is Dartmouth’s first Bicentennial Professor of Public Affairs, will give a winter-term course in American-Canadian relations, under the joint auspices of the History Department and the Public Affairs Center. Much of his time in recent months has been spent in preparation for this return to teaching, and his reading and research will continue through the fall. Professor Dickey now carries the title of Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, in which role also he will pursue his special interest in relations between the United States and Canada. This activity will be heaviest in the spring.
Immediately after relinquishing the Dartmouth presidency on March 1, President Dickey went to Florida with Mrs. Dickey for a month’s vacation. They returned to Hanover for two weeks to oversee their moving out of the President’s House, and since the middle of April they have been at their Lake Cham- plain summer cottage at Swanton, Vt. Mr. Dickey has traveled a good deal to Canada and to foundation and board meetings. He represented the Ivy colleges at the inauguration of President Dale Corson of Cornell in June, and last month he was Dartmouth’s delegate to the meeting of the International Association of Universities in Montreal.
John and Christina Dickey smile their welcome at 11 Lyme Road.
The Dickeys’ contemporary home, designed by Nel-son Aldrich, is set in a pine woods at the edge of the9-hole golf course. A chip shot away, their nearestneighbor is head football coach Bob Blackman.
The Dickey’s in their three-storied livingroom, are visited by Alex Fanelli ’42,who was special assistant to PresidentDickey and now fills the same positionfor President Kemeny. A Karsh photoof Mr. Dickey is seen at top left.
Mrs. Dickey has special pride in the dining room set,partly shown, which was presented by the wives ofthe Dartmouth Trustees. The sun dial (indoors tem-porarily for safe keeping) was given to the Dickeysby the College’s staff personnel and was made byFrederick Schleipman of Thayer School as a replicaof Eleazar Wheelock’s 1773 sun dial.
Mr. Dickey will spend a lot of his time in this comfortablestudy. The clock behind him was a gift of the Boston alumniassociation, and the black case to the right of his head con-tains a set of very choice fishing rods presented by the Classof 1950. Another class gift for the new home is the shrubbery.
