WILLIAM H. SCHLESINGER '72

WILLIAM H. SCHLESINGER '72 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, chairman of the DOC's Environmental Studies Division, was the key student leader in the College's successful observance of Earth Day on April 22.

In cooperation with Station WDCR, the Hanover Conservation Council, the Dartmouth-Upper Valley chapter of Zero Population Growth, Planned Parenthood Association of Lebanon, New Hampshire Tomorrow, Colby Junior College, and the New Hampshire Audubon Society, the DOC mounted an allday program that involved the whole community and ran the gamut of lectures, seminars, panels, workshops, exhibitions, poster contests, videotapes, telecasts, and cleanup task forces.

Professors were persuaded to devote classes to population and environmental problems. The most visible signs of the special day, in addition to Earth Fair displays, were the school children, college students, and townspeople who were out in force cleaning up "Hanover's own backyard." WDCR, as part of its all-day participation, had trucks and work crews ready to attack unsightly public areas that listeners reported by phone. The night before Earth Day one of the kick-off speakers at the College was Robert T. Dennis '57, Director of the Potomac Basin Center in Washington, D. C.

Bill Schlesinger, son of Dr. William L. Schlesinger '33, has been interested in conservation since prep school days. The Environmental Studies Division he heads as a sophomore was created last fall and is one of the three main divisions of the DOC, along with Cabin and Trail and the Winter Sports Division. The program he directs is actionoriented and plans for the immediate future will focus on the College itself - its daily operations and its land management.