New Institute Director

Thea C. Froling of the University of Vermont is coming to Dartmouth in early March to fill the position of executive director of the Dartmouth Institute, a continuing education program in the liberal arts for executives. She succeeds Gilbert R. Tanis '38, director emeritus, who headed the institute for ten years.

Froling has been program manager of the Management Development Series within the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Vermont. This involved running a program of some 40 ofF-campus seminars a year in professional development, attracting participants from business, state and federal government, and non-profit organizations. She also worked as Vermont Title I HEA administrator, managing a federal program for adult learners. Before going to the University of Vermont she was director of development for the Woodstock (Vt.) Country Day School, and before that, administrative manager of the Council of New York Law Associates and business manager of New York City's Growth Through Arts program. Froling is a graduate of Bennington College and a candidate for the master's degree in education from the University of Vermont.

The Dartmouth Institute, an intensive, month-long program of continuing education in the liberal arts, is offered each summer to top-echelon business executives, as well as enrollees from labor, government, and the professions. Members of the Dartmouth faculty make up the teaching staff.

Another administrative appointment announced recently is that of Lise M. Boucher as assistant controller of the College in charge of general accounting. A certified public accountant, she is a graduate of Clarkson College and has worked for the past five years with the national accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney in its Portland, Maine office.