New Counseling Program

In a newly created office, Bruce Baker has been appointed Director of Counseling at the College.

An Iowa native with a Doctor of Education degree from Boston University, Baker will be responsible for a broad student-service-based counseling service which he hopes will be "more involved with the life in the dormitories without intruding upon the privacy of the students."

He looks forward to developing "a longitudinal vocational program," following up freshman-year vocational tests with discussion with individual students about choices open to them and the economic and personal influences which prompt their vocational decisions.

Baker also hopes to add a reading, writing, and study-skills expert to his office staff, to deal with motivational and language-pattern problems as well as those of reading speed.

Work with the Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth Plan off-campus programs, and study-abroad programs, all potentially significant to students' eventual career choices, is part of Baker's plans for the broadened counseling service.

His office will also do personal counseling, working with the deans, the faculty, and the college infirmary in a "professional and confidential manner."