Rhodes

Christopher L. Peisch, a Burlington, Vermont, senior, has been named a Rhodes Scholar, one of 32 Americans to win what is commonly acknowledged to be the most coveted undergraduate laurel of them all.

At Oxford next year, the first of either two or three years' study the Rhodes Scholarship will support, Peisch will read either history or law.

Consistent with the Rhodes committee's emphasis on a super-well-roundedness as a criterion for selection, Peisch has long been out in front of the pack in areas other than scholarship. Three of his four years at Dartmouth, incuding freshman, he has been cross-country captain. This year he is also co-captain of the track team, specializing in the two-mile. He is a member of Casque and Gauntlet and an active participant in the affairs of the Catholic Student Center and in area youth programs.

He is the son of Francis R. Peisch '39; brother of Thomas '70; nephew of Mark '44, who taught art history at Dartmouth briefly in the late '40s; and grandson of Archibald Peisch of Norwich, Vermont, a member of the Tuck School faculty from 1920 to 1929.