1951
Ed Lathem was appointed in April as counselor-assistant to President David McLaughlin and a nice picture of Ed and President McLaughlin sealing the appointment is reproduced on the next page.
Ed, who was serving as dean of libraries and librarian emertius of the College, will begin his new duties immediately. He'll also continue to serve in his current capacities as the College's Bezaleel Woodward Fellow and as executive director for its Harle and Kenneth Montgomery Endowment, which regularly brings to the Dartmouth campus as visiting fellows distinguished scholars, public officials, writers, thinkers, and others.
Ed's assumption of the role of counselor-assistant was worked out in conjunction with Leonard M. Rieser '44, Dartmouth's provost, and the appointment involves adjustments under which all of Ed's responsibilities will be brought into a direct relationship to the president.
In making the announcement, President McLaughlin stressed that during the period just ahead, Provost Rieser, as chairman of the Montgomery Endowment Steering Committee, Ed, and he himself would "undertake appropriate consultation . . . regarding the organizational and administrative structure of the Montgomery Endowment, to insure that it continues to have a vital and positive impact on the intellectual life of the College." The Montgomery Endowment was established in 1977 by Kenneth F. Montgomery, a Chicago attorney and a 1925 graduate of Dartmouth, and his wife Harle.
After Dartmouth, Ed received a master's degree in librarianship from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Oxford University. Ed has been serving Dartmouth College and belle lettres for three decades as scholar, editor, and compiler of important works, in addition to bearing a central concern for building the outstanding resources and services of Dartmouth's library system.
He joined the Dartmouth libraries as assistant to the librarian in 1952 and earned increasingly responsible posts through the years, becoming the 15 th librarian of the College in 1968 and dean of the libraries in 1973.
During this period, he also initiated the concept of the University Press of New England and was instrumental in bringing it into being. He also stimulated the start of the immense Daniel Webster Papers Project and began the College's oral history program, concentrating on latter-day Dartmouth and its personalities.
In 1976—77 he was president of the Association of Research Libraries, an organization of the leading scholarly libraries of the U.S. and Canada.
He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on Robert Frost, and he has compiled or edited numerous works on other subjects as well, ranging from Thirteen Colonial Americana to John Sloan Dickey's The Dartmouth Experience.
On retiring from his library positions in 1978, Ed was appointed the College's first Bezaleel Woodward Fellow named after Dartmouth's first librarian enabling him to devote more time to scholarly concerns and to broadly-ranging interests of the College. In 1980 he was appointed executive director of the Montgomery Endowment, having earlier been associated with the conceptuall2atlon and launching of its program, working closely with the endowment's donors.
In other news, Reed M. Badglev chair of the class award committee, writes that nees for our first "195 1 Class Award" open. The award will be given to that class member who in the judgement of the class the executive committee has done the most for Dartmouth and/or distinguished himself in his profession or through public service to his community or country. Because it is intended this award will be presented at the William burg mini-reunion October 8-9 Reed asks that nominations be submittted in writing no later than July 31. Forward names to Reed Badgley, 435 Willow Road, Winnetka. I 60093. Please include a brief statement sup porting your nominee suggestion. Reed's committee includes Jim Bovaird, Dave Hilton and Pete Henderson.
Russ Dilks sent me a nice personal note attached to the latest report on Roxane and Ed Isbey. Ed writes that Brian, a junior at As: ville School, still loves soccer, scuba, and traveling;. Caroline is a freshman pre-veterinary sr dent at Michigan State University at East Lansing. Ford, Appalachian State University 'Bl, is living in Atlanta and just passed his Georgia real estate board license exam and is working in the Sandy Springs office of Northside Realty. Ed 111, an M.D., married Jane Elizabeth Lysko M.D. on May 2 last year, two weeks prior to their graduation (that's four in one year); his internship will be in Augusta then ophthalmology at Duke, pathology for Jane, all four years at Chapel Hill. roxane Jr. is sales promotion manager for Guerlain Inc it New York City and'chaired the 1982 winter ball for the Junior League of New York City Roxane Sr. is coping more or less with the 50-year decade. Spent an unforgettable week spring bare-boat sailing with students from U.N.C.-Asheville. Ed is busier than ever appointed to Practitioners' Advisory Committee for American Academy of Ophthalmology and challenged by his teaching of senior residents from Duke at the Veterans Administra- tion Hospital in Asheville.
Berl Bernhard, a Washington, D.C.. torney and a trustee of Dartmouth College. the Gordon speaker on April 22 at a lecture sponsored by the Daniel Webster Legal Society of the College. His appearance was made un<to the Thurlow M. Gordon 1906 Memorial Lecture Endowment, named for a New York city lawyer who was a 1906 graduate of Dartmouth The income from the endowment sponsors lectures for the Daniel Webster Legal Socienty, an undergraduate group interested in the Law.
After graduating from Dartmouth. Bet 'earned his LL.B. degree from Yale Universit Law'Schooi in 1954 and was law clerk for Ju Se Luther W. Youngdahl of the U.S. Diswa Court for the District of Columbia. He is 2 partner in general practice with the Washing ton law firm of Verner, Liiprert, Bernhar McPherson. Active in Democratic Party national affairs, Berl was natronal campaign ager for Senator Edmund Muskie s try r 1972 Presidential nomination and was sp« writer for the senator's 1968 vice presidential attempt.
Edward Connery Lathem 51 (right) has been named to the position of counselor-assistant toPresident David T. McLaughlin (left), it was announced recently by McLaughlin. Details ofLathem's distinguished career at the College are in the 1951 class notes.
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