Basic

The familiar New Hampshire license plate BASIC has been missing from its accustomed parking place behind Parkhurst Hall a good bit lately as President Kemeny sets a dizzying pace of speaking engagements at alumni gatherings and meetings of scientific, educational, and business groups.

Late in March he delivered a two-day series of lectures on "Computers and Society ' at Princeton University, his alma mater, as the 1974 Vanuxem Lecturer. The annual series, established in 1912 to provide the Princeton community with lectures of current scientific interest, has in recent years attracted such speakers as Nobel Prize winners Linus C. Pauling and Francis H. D. Crick.

On April 4, Mr. Kemeny presented the third annual Leonard Savage Memorial Lecture in Computer Science at Yale, on the topic "What the Well Educated Person Should Know About the Computer."

Last month and this, the President is observing the annual spring ritual of Dartmouth club visitation, usually accompanied by Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50, 1974 Alumni Fund chairman. In April he spoke at club meetings in Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cleveland. While in Chicago, he also addressed the Executive Club, which recently played host to President Nixon at one of its regular luncheon meetings. In Cleveland, he participated as a faculty member of an Alumni Seminar on "Technology and the Future of Liberal Education."

On this month's tour of the Far West, he is speaking before clubs in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego and taking part in the regional conference "Dartmouth in San Francisco," which has as its general theme "Critical Choices for America."

Mr. Kemeny was scheduled to return to Chicago May 8 to address the National Computer Conference, which this year honors the tenth anniversary of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System.