Diamonds into Pearls

Two Dartmouth seniors, one a U. S. citizen, one a Canadian, both exemplars of the eclecticism which has been a criterion for the appointment of Rhodes Scholars since the beginning, have been named to the most coveted fellowship an undergraduate can receive.

Christopher P. Hall of Summit, New Jersey, and S. Neil MacFarlane of Montreal will be studying for the next two years, with an optional third, at Oxford University, respectively one of 32 from the United States and one of 11 from Canada so honored.

An English honors major who had already been admitted to Dartmouth Medical School, Hall has received citations in biology and physics, won varsity letters in soccer and skiing, and served as a tutor in French after returning from Language Study Abroad in Blois.

An honors major in geography, MacFarlane has displayed his versatility as a French teaching assistant in Blois, as a Russian language laboratory monitor, and as a participant in Dartmouth's foreign study program in Leningrad.

Together they bring to an even half-hundred the number of Dartmouth students who have earned the opportunity to convert Mr. Rhodes' diamonds into the pearls of wisdom Oxford dispenses. Those diamonds currently translate into stipends of £1,500 a year, or just under $3,000 at today's exchange rates.

Eight other seniors or recent graduates of the College will be harvesting a variety of pearls from London to Luxor on graduate-study fellowships established by the estate of the late James B. Reynolds of the Class of 1890.

Richard A. Mosenthal '74 of Norwich, Vermont, will study film-making and videotape production at the Hornsey College of Art in London; Harold Woods Jr. '74 of Denver, the evolution of column types in Egypt. Peter S. Fisher '75, Somerville, Massachusetts, will conduct an oral history project on Germany's Weimar Republic, while Clark D. Cunningham '75 of Detroit will pursue an Honors B. A. at New College, Oxford.

The four seniors who have won Reynolds scholarships will follow equally diverse paths in England, France, and Germany. Paul M. Lazarus of Glencoe, Illinois, will undertake a project on the musical theater, with voice lessons and an apprenticeship with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. Diane E. Martin of Washington, D.C., will study trends of modern literary criticism in Paris, Robert E. Orton III of Palm Harbor, Florida, mathematical logic at the University of Bonn. David M. Shribman, this year an Undergraduate Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, will work for an Honors B. A. in history at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Four of the Reynolds recipients have Dartmouth fathers: William T. Mosenthal '38, Robert Martin '46, Richard M. Shribman '47, and Steven Lazarus '52.

Civil War general George McClellan heads timorously (as usual) into the wind in thisweather vane crafted by an unknown folk artist. From the College collections.