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The Alumni Magazine's new undergraduate editors and Campbell Interns are Robert Eshman and Lisa Campney, both seniors. Eshman, an anthropology and environmental studies major from Encino, California, is a former reporter and editor for The Dartmouth. His article, "Ohiyesa '87: The Life of Charles Alexander Eastman," appeared in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S February issue, and he recently prepared a study on "Community Land Trusts in the Northeast" for NewRoots magazine. He spent this summer as a commercial fisherman, watermelon picker and vender, and cook on an offshore oil rig.

Campney, a history major from Whately, Massachusetts, worked recently as a reporter for the Daily HampshireGazette and has received journalism awards from the Gazette and from the Greenfield Recorder. She also spent a summer as a field worker on a tobacco farm. She worked last spring as an editor and researcher for the Daniel Webster Papers at Dartmouth and this summer was an intern in the public relations department at Mobil Oil Corporation.

The Campbell Internship was established in memory of Whitney Campbell '25 by his classmate Robert Borwell in order to provide undergraduates with experience in journalism.

Silver, gold, and parchment, these are the presidential badges of office all datingfrom the 18th century transmitted at Dartmouth inaugurations. The Wentworth Bowl{top) was commissioned by Governor John Wentworth to be given to Eleazar Wheelock"and his successors" at the College's first commencement in 1771. The bowl, properlyknown as a monteith, was designed for cooling drinking glasses. It measures teninches in diameter and was made by Daniel Henchman and engraved by Nathaniel Hurd,both of Boston. Promulgated in the name of George III, the charter (detail, bottomleft) establishing Dartmouth College "errors . . . notwithstanding" was signed byWentworth on December 13, 1769. The Flude Medal (bottom right), known also as thePresident s Medallion and simply "the jewel," was donated by a London broker namedJohn Flude in 1 783, shortly after John Wheelock completed a fund-raising trip to Britain.