New Trustee

Walter Burke '44 of Greenwich, Connecticut, president of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, has been elected a Charter Trustee of the College. He succeeds Robert S. Oelman '31, a member of the board for 15 years.

A law graduate of Columbia, Burke was a practicing attorney before he became counsel and investment adviser to the late Sherman M. Fairchild. He already is involved in the direction of several educational institutions, as chairman of the board of Union Theological Seminary in New York and of the Brunswick School in Greenwich, as a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, as a trustee and director of the New York Public Library, and as an overseer of the Hopkins Center.

A past board chairman of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation and Fairchild Industries, he has also served as a director of several other-corporations.

The "very splendid mix" that Dartmouth has developed over the past several years is a matter of special concern to Burke as he assumes his trusteeship of the College. "The contents of this 'mix,' " he wrote recently, "are many (some of them probably unknown to us): students, alumni, faculty, geographic location. Perhaps 'spirit' is a better word to describe this blend of so many factors. In any event the result is a precious and delicate thing which must be nurtured by the entire Dartmouth family. ..."