Orozco Celebration

During the month of February, the College will kick off its year-long celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the completion of the Epic of American Civilization, better known to most Dartmouth alumni as the Orozco frescoes. Orozco's masterwork, which lines the walls of the Reserve Room in Baker Library, was completed and signed by the artist on February 13, 1934. To commemorate this event, there will be a showing of Sergei Eisenstein's film Que viva Mexico! in Spaulding Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. At 5:00 p.m., there will be a ceremony in the Reserve Room followed by a reception in Baker hosted by the Friends of Baker Library. Dr. Jacquelynn Baas, Curator of the Hood Museum, has asked that any alumnus who has photos of the murals while they were being executed contact her at the Hood Museum of Art, Hinman Box 6034, Hanover N.H. 03755, or by phone at (603) 646-2809.

A great school does not merely teachfacts and suggest ideas, and declarethe truth; it kindles the fire and fansthe flame in which facts, ideas, thetruth, and the mind are fused andwelded in inseparable union.X William Jewett Tucker, in his baccalaureate sermon to the Class of 1894