In Brief ...
Among the American prisoners of war released on March 15 was Major Glenn H. Wilson '55, USAF, of St. Albans, W. Va. Three days later, in San Antonio, Texas, he was reunited with his wife Adlyn and their three children, and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Wilson of St. Albans. Major Wilson was shot down over North Vietnam on August 6, 1967. For a little over a year he was listed as missing, but in November 1968 word reached his family that he was a prisoner in Hanoi.
The Dartmouth Medical School faculty last month approved a resolution protesting the impounding of funds appropriated by Congress for public health programs. "Be it resolved," the resolution said, "that the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School deplores and protests actions of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government in impounding funds authorized by Congress for the support of Federal programs in the health area. The national interests are not well served by budgetary practices that restrict the efforts of physicians, scientists, and educators who are working to improve the health of American citizens through effective programs in medical research, education, and patient care." Copies of the resolution were sent to officials in Washington and to the Senators and Congressmen from New Hampshire and Vermont.
For the third successive year MBA students from Tuck School are offering a free consulting service to assist Upper Valley residents in preparing their income tax returns. The 18 students participating were given a brief training session by the Internal Revenue Service before they began their consulting service, which is available in a West Lebanon church each Monday and Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. The Tuck men had 70 clients last year; and this year they will have had more than twice as many when the April 16 filing deadline is reached. While the service is free, clients who want to make some payment are asked to contribute to the Lebanon Regional Training Center, a rehabilitation agency which Dartmouth students have been aiding.
Two well-known figures on the I American literary scene, Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg, spoke at Dartmouth last month. Mailer spoke to a packed house in Webster Hall on March 2 and then was guest at a reception at the River Cluster dormitories. Ginsberg gave a' poetry reading, also in Webster, on March 29, and then held an informal meeting with students in-the Choate Residence.
Four Dartmouth students, one each term, will serve as interns in the office of Hanover Town Manager Neil Berlin. Under the joint sponsorship of the Town of Hanover and Dartmouth's Public Affairs Center, they will help in major areas of town administration, conduct research, do long-range planning, help in contacts with federal agencies, and take minutes at meetings of the Board of Selectmen. John D. Bunker '75 is the intern for the spring term, and Nancy E. Kepes 76 will serve during the summer term. Miss Kepes is the daughter of Joseph D. Kepes '46 of Pittsford, N.Y.
Wayne S. Leibel '73 of West Hartford, Conn., is the first Dartmouth recipient of a new $10,000, two-year E.I. DuPont & Company Graduate Fellowship in science and engineering. A biological sciences major, Leibel has held two undergraduate fellowships and in his sophomore year received a research grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dartmouth is one of twenty institutions participating in DuPont's "pilot" fellowship program. In establishing the graduate fellowships, DuPont said, "The company is concerned about the continued decrease in federal funds for support of graduate education in science and engineering. Many students are unduly influenced by the recent job situation and are making career choices in other fields. A shortage of top-notch people with graduate degrees in science and engineering seems likely in two to four years."
