Going Strong

At the convocation there also was news of the sort to make the volunteer workers pleased for the College and, in a suitably modest way, pleased for themselves. The good news was that as of October 26, contributions to the Campaign for Dartmouth totalled $84.5 million. That figure represented an achievement of slightly over half of the goal by the second anniversary of the campaign, with three more years remaining.

Included in the total were two recent major gifts: $2.5 million from the Thomas K. Cory Trust and $1 million from Mrs. Marian Minor Cook in memory of her late husband, John Brown Cook '29.

Thomas K. Cory's connection with Dartmouth consisted of'an early business relationship with Ernest Martin Hopkins '01 when they both worked at Filene's Department Store in Boston. The Cory Trust was established in 1924, the year before his death, and under its provisions the principal gift to Dartmouth will be placed into endowment, with the income to be applied to scholarship aid.

The gift of Marian Cook is to support a design center at Thayer School to "honor on the Dartmouth campus the entrepreneurial career of John Brown Cook and enhance joint programs between the Graduate School of Engineering and the Amos Tuck School."