In Brief ...

Dartmouth alumni club officers will hold their annual fall meeting in Hanover the weekend of November 10-11, which offers the Dartmouth-Columbia game as a highlight. Peter C. Schwartz '60 of Glastonbury, Conn., will preside over the gathering of club presidents, secretaries, enrollment liaison officers, and job placement chairmen.

• John S. Hughes '66 has been chosen by the Fraternity Governing Board to be the new Fraternity Business Manager. With an office in College Hall, he will deal with the College on behalf of the fraternities and will assist the houses in improving their financial situations by negotiating bulk contracts for goods and services.

• Goddard Lieberson, senior vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, has been named by the Dartmouth Trustees to be chairman of the Board of Overseers of Hopkins Center. He succeeds the founding chairman of the Board, William B. Jaffe, who died last April. Mr. Lieberson served as chairman of the music advisory committee for the Hopkins Center and in 1966 was made a founding member of the Dartmouth Arts Council, predecessor to the Board of Overseers which was created in April 1972.

• The Rev. Robert S. Mac Arthur III '64, an ordained Episcopalian priest, has been named director of the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. For the past two years he has served as OBC program director, under Willem M. Lange, who has resigned the directorship. Outward Bound operates under the aegis of the Tucker Foundation, and in addition to its programs for Dartmouth students and the Hanover community it plans this year to expand its efforts to include work with the New Hampshire Industrial School, Crotched Mountain School, and certain school districts in northern New Hampshire. Dartmouth's Outward Bound Center is one of six in the nation.

• The Public Affairs Center at Dartmouth has announced the approval of 14 grants totaling $60,000 to support programs of benefit to the region. The funds are administered as part of a grant to the College from the Spaulding-Potter Trusts. The grants will support students, faculty and others in engineering assistance to local communities, educational internships, child care programs, aid to small businesses, exporting Hopkins Center programs, teacher training, and other community focused projects.

• Twelve Canadian colleges and high schools are now members of the Kiewit Educational Time-Sharing Computer Network operated by the College. They join some 50 other colleges and schools in the United States which regularly use the DTSS. The Canadian universities involved are University of Montreal, Sir George Williams University, University of Sherbrooke, and York University in Toronto.

• A system developed by Dartmouth Medical School for "auditing the performance" of Medex trainees will provide the basis for common standards for all six Medex training centers in the country, it has been announced by HEW. Representatives of the six regional programs based in Hanover, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Charleston, S. C., and Bismarck, N. D., recently met here to establish a standard set of criteria. Men and women in Medex are trained to serve as physicians' assistants.

• Twenty executives of the Ford Motor Company met in Hanover last month with 125 Dartmouth and University of New Hampshire faculty and administration members and with an equal number of students from the two institutions, as part of the company's efforts to improve communication between the academic and industrial worlds. The Ford Roundtable was directed by Philip E. Benton Jr. '52, Tuck '53, who is general manager of the Ford Customer Service Division.