Circling the Green
• Only Just: The trustees have '"established an endowed professorship in the natural sciences to honor a distinguished black alumnus, the late Ernest Everett Just '07, internationally renowned cell biologist, Howard University professor, and research zoologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
• The first term of alumni trustee George B. Munroe '43, who was elected to the board in 1977 after winning a ballot contest with the Reverend Pauli Murray, will expire at commencement in June. He is eligible for a second five-year term and has agreed to serve if re-nominated by the Alumni Council at its semi-annual meeting in Hanover next month. Munroe is chairman of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, a mining and metals firm with headquarters in New York City.
• Stockpiling: The College has purchased from a local firm a 2,006-acre tract of undeveloped land in the town of Lebanon, just south of Hanover, in a triangle between state routes 10 and 120 and Interstate 89. Dartmouth already owned underlying title to 600 of those acres, part of a grant from Lebanon in 1784. A not very lucrative investment, the College portion has been under a 990-year lease at an annual rent of 27 cents per acre.
• World's Record: U.S. ski team member Jim Galanes of Brattleboro, Vermont, last month won the roller ski marathon, raced in conjunction with the Medical School Marathon, in the fastest time ever. It was the first in Hanover and only the second running anywhere of the ski event over a regulation 26-mile-plus course.
• Visitor: Financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn came to a mini-reunion with her father, 1935's class president F. Leonard Bryant, and spoke at a classsponsored seminar on "Reagan in Context." To the dismay of some and the delight of others, she said, "The Republicans know there's no such thing as a free lunch, but they have a surprising weakness for believing in the tooth fairy. But, once you get in bed with the tooth fairy, you rapidly discover the lady is not a virgin and that she expects payment."
• More Visitors: Two Chinese physicians, one a general surgeon, the other a physiologist-acupuncturist, were the first visiting scholars to come to the Medical School from Xian Medical School in Shaanxi Province, under a program set up by the school's former dean, James Strickler '50, when he was in China in 1979.
• Montgomery Largesse (cont.): With an apprehensive eye on federal cutbacks in funds for education, Harle and Kenneth Montgomery '25 have given $500,000 to endow scholarship funds, with preference to go to students from three Texas counties.
• Ethical: The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation has granted the Medical School $175,000 to increase the scope of efforts already made toward establishing the school as a center for research and teaching in medical ethics. There are now courses for medical students and psychiatric residents and monthly seminars in nursing ethics and psychiatry and philosophy.
