The Alumni Magazine's New Editor
Dennis A. Dinan '61 of Plainfield, N.H., has been named the seventh editor of the Dartmouth AlumniMagazine. Announcement that he would take over the editorship as of July 1 was made by Vice President George H. Colton '35 at the annual Hanover gathering of Dartmouth class officers May 4-5.
Dinan, who is Assistant to the Secretary of the College, editor of The Bulletin, and Director of Dartmouth Alumni College, will succeed Charles E. Widmayer '30, editor for the past 30 years, who retires June 30 as his age and that of the magazine coincide at 65.
Dinan has been a member of the Dartmouth administrative staff since 1967. Before returning to Hanover in that year he was an assistant editor with American Heritage Publishing Co., engaged in textbook editing and some writing and research in American history. A native of Detroit, he entered Dartmouth from Bloomfield Hills High School. As an undergraduate he was a history major, a member of the editorial staff of The Dartmouth, and became a member of Psi Upsilon. Among his academic citations was one from Prof. Dimitri von Mohrenschildt which foreshadowed his editorial career: "Mr. Dinan is commended for unusual understanding of literature and capacity to express himself in writing."
He and his wife, the former Sally Austerberry of Detroit, live with their two sons, Matthew and Brendan, on Old Stage Road, Plainfield. His brother is Dr. John T. Dinan Jr. '55 of Falmouth, Maine.
The line of Alumni Magazine editors which Dinan now joins began with Ernest Martin Hopkins '01, who while Secretary of the College served as editor from 1908 to 1910. Successive editors were Homer Eaton Keyes '00, 1910-20; Eugene F. Clark '01, 1920-28, 1929-30; Eric P. Kelly '06, 1928-29, 1930; Sidney C. Hayward '26, 1930-43; and Charles E. Widmayer '30, 1943-73.
The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is published by the Dartmouth Class Secretaries Association. Its circulation for the publication year 1973-74 will be in excess of 35,000, including approximately 93% of all alumni.
