Trustees Take Action

At their April meeting, the Trustees announced that they had taken action on several important matters:

in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Undergraduate Life, the Board approved a $14.5 million renovation package which includes funds for the renovation of the Choate a.nd River dorm clusters and the Thayer Dining Hall facility, as well as the upgrading of the admissions and financial aid offices in McNutt Hall;

they approved the 1983—84 operating budget of $121 million. The budget, which will be balanced, will include financial aid expenditures that represent an increase of 13-4 percent over that offered in 1982-83;

• the Board awarded tenure to three members of the Dartmouth faculty Professor Michael Green of history and Native American Studies, Professor Mary Kelley of history, and Professor Christine Perkell of classics;

• the Trustees announced the appointment of Dr. Colin C. Blaydon, provost for academic policy and planning and professor of both business administration and public policy at Duke University, to Dean of the Tuck School, succeeding Professor Richard R. West, who, after a year's sabbatical leave, will return to the Tuck faculty;

• they elected Walter Burke '44 president of Sherman Fairchild Foundation and a Trustee of the College since 1976, to serve as Chairman of the Board effective June 16;

• they elected two new trustees, Lisle C. Carter, Jr. '45 of Washington, D.C. and Robert R. Douglass '53 of Greenwich. Conn. Carter, an attorney with Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, is former president of the University of the District of Columbia. Douglass, formerly counsel to the late Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, is executive vice-president of the Chase Manhattan Bank;

• and they approved a new charter for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. One of the features of the charter, the establishment of a new editorial board to develop the editorial policies of the MAGAZINE in conjunction with the new editor, will help ensure the MAGAZINE'S continued independence.