The New Editor
The MAGAZINE'S eighth editor was appointed in March and has been "on board" since April 18. Douglas McCreary Greenwood '66 was recruited from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he was senior editor in the Office of University Relations. He also wrote and edited for the Georgetown alumni magazine and served as University Lecturer in American literature.
The way the new editor tells it, when it came to college, there was never any other place for him but Dartmouth: "I had my heart set on the Big Green when I was a kid. Somewhere back home there's a picture of my brother and me. I'm six and he's four, and he's wearing a Miami, Ohio, sweatshirt and I'm wearing a Dartmouth one,— and I'll be darned if Jon didn't go on to Miami University some 14 years later while I was in my sophomore year at Dartmouth."
Born in Gardner, Massachusetts, Greenwood moved with his family to Pompano Beach, Florida, where he attended high school. As an undergraduate, he majored in English, and he joined Alpha Theta fraternity, played freshman tennis and squash, and served on both the Interdormitory Council and the Interfraternity Council. As a senior, he flirted with the idea of law school, but he decided to stick with literature, taking an M. A. at Georgetown University and later a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina. He specialized in American Transcendentalism and nineteenth-century American intellectual history and published his first article, a piece on James Marsh of the class of 1817, the "father" of Transcendentalism, in you guessed it the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Greenwood has been the author of numerous scholarly articles, book reviews, and essays, and he has written scripts and conducted interviews for National Public Radio. Currently he is at work on a publishing project on nineteenth-century American landscape art for the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Since his graduation from the College, Greenwood has maintained close ties to Dartmouth. He has been a class agent, an interviewer of prospective applicants in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., and a spectator at Dartmouth athletic events whenever time allowed. A licensed pilot since the age of 17, Greenwood is also a collector of rare books, an avid sailor, and a former tennis pro.
President McLaughlin commended the new editor's "range of qualifications as teacher, editor, and writer" and remarked with enthusiasm on his "deep commitment to the College." For his part, Greenwood said he felt that fears about infringement of the MAGAZINE'S editorial freedom are ill-founded: "There's no question in my mind that the integrity and quality of the MAGAZINE will be maintained in the future. I was tremendously impressed with the interest, the knowledge, and the focus of the questions asked by the members of the search committee. And I can say, without out reservation, that the probing discussions I had with senior administrators, faculty, and staff were very reassuring; indeed, I found these men and women to be as committed to integrity, editorial independence, and producing a MAGAZINE which reflects a balanced, honest presentation of goings-on at Dartmouth as I. We already have an excellent staff on hand, one, I might add, that pulled long hours during Dennis Dinan's illness and subsequently worked hard with Charlie Widmayer to keep the MAGAZINE afloat during a most difficult time. I'm looking forward to your comments, suggestions, and criticisms in the days ahead."
