Feature

All the Presidents's People

SEPTEMBER 1981 J. N.

All the Presidents's People J. N. SEPTEMBER 1981

Feature

SEPTEMBER 1981 J. N.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE is a highly complex organization dedicated to certain goals some of them educational, some political, some social, some financial. Above all is the survival of the institution. Many people share the responsibility for maintaining the standards of the College, from the students who attend to the faculty who teach. But it is the administrators, maintaining the framework within which the institution functions, who bear the most responsibility for the continued existence of the organization. As Dartmouth moves into the McLaughlin years, the survival of Dartmouth College is not an issue; the form of the institution is.

During the search for John Kemeny's successor, I became interested in portraying the top-level individuals who are engaged in running the institution. The day of the 25-year presidential tenure is past, I was told: The top job is too demanding for anyone to bear that long. Implicit in the recognition of this fact is the necessity for a wellfunctioning bureaucracy. Hence, these administrators.

I was not interested in collecting a series of corporate-style head-and-shoulders photographs, and therefore decided to remove the usual frames of reference within which portraits are made. Full-figure placement against a plain white background places the personality into high relief.

The 24 people pictured in the next six pages are men and women intensely involved in the administration of Dartmouth College. They shape the institution, they influence the course of events, they affect the look, the feel, the health of the community. Some are more visible in the community than others. (Some, such as the new dean of the Medical School, the new dean of students, and the new directors of Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum, haven't even arrived—and don't appear here.) But from their offices in Parkhurst and McNutt, Blunt and Wentworth, on campus or out of town, these are the people who keep Dartmouth running.

David T. McLaughlin '54 president

illiam Y. Arms rector of computing services

obert G. Barnum '63 irector of personnel and administrative services

Marilyn A. Baldwin associate dean of the College

Margaret H. Bonz dean of freshmen

Gary P. Clark '62 College counsel

Alexander Fanelli '42 executive assistant to the president

William P. Davis Jr. treasurer of the College & director of institutional planning

Harland W. Hoisington Jr. '48 director of financial aid

F. Long in of Thayer School

alph N. Manuel '58 ;an of the College

J. Michael McGean '49 secretary of the College