Hopkins Center Overseers
Membership of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center, established recently by the Board of Trustees to advise the Director of the Center and the President and Trustees of the College, has been announced by President Kemeny.
The founding chairman is William B. Jaffe of New York City, a lawyer, art patron and collector, donor with his wife of the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, chairman of the Art Advisory Council of the Center, and recipient in 1964 of an honorary degree from the College.
Other appointed members of the Board of Overseers are Mrs. James Bryant Conant of New York and Hanover, wife of the President Emeritus of Harvard University; Ralph Burgard '49 of Roverdale, N.Y., a consultant on arts administration; Ward Canaday '21 of Toledo, 0., board chairman of the Overland Investment Corporation; John French '3O of New York and Woodstock, Vt., attorney; Goddard Lieberson of New York, chairman of the Music Advisory Committee for the Center and senior vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Also, Richard D. Lombard '53 of Rye, N.Y., chairman of a New York investment firm and a Trustee of the College; John Meek '33, Vice President of the College; David V. Picker '53, president of United Artists and its record subsidiary; Beekman Pool, a Dublin, N.H., lawyer; Robert Ryan '32 of New York and Holderness, N.H., stage, screen, and television actor; and William Schuman of New York, former president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and of the Juilliard School of Music.
President Kemeny, Dean of the Faculty Leonard M. Rieser '44, and Center Director Peter Smith as ex officio members make up the rest of the 15- member board.
The new board was established to review the policies, programs, and resources of the Center, to receive and propose changes in them, to evaluate the contributions of the Center to the purposes of the College, and to lend support to activities of the Center.
The Overseers replace the Dartmouth Arts Council, of which Frank L. Harrington '24 was chairman from the time of its inception until 1970, when Mr. Harrington retired from the Board of Trustees. Several of the newly appointed overseers are former council members.
