Crossing the Green
The Dartmouth Outing Club's 75th anniversary was proclaimed simultaneously from atop all 48 New Hampshire peaks over 4,000 feet on October 6. Some 250 DOC members and alumni carried green and white banners to the summits of the 48 mountains ranging from the Northeast's highest peak, 6,288-foot Mount Washington, to Mount Whiteface, exactly 4,000 feet high. It was the first time one organization completed climbs of all the Granite State 4,000-footers in a single day. Some hikers were rewarded for their efforts with spectacular views, though some of the peaks are so wooded that fleeting glimpses of other ranges were all that was possible. But all of the hiking groups were feted at day's end with a dinner and square dance at the Ravine Lodge on 4,810-foot Mount Moosilauke. A two-day symposium honoring Walter Stockmayer, professor emeritus of chemistry, was held in Hanover over the summer. The symposium was attended by 50 of Stockmayer's former students and research collaborators, who came from as far away as Japan, Denmark, and France to present talks in the general area of polymer science. Stockmayer came to Dartmouth in 1961 from M.I.T. and has achieved international recognition as a teacher and a researcher.
■ The Reverend Gwendolyn S. King has been named associate chaplain at the College for a ten-month appointment to run until next summer. King, an ordained Lutheran minister, is involved in counseling, advising student organizations, and assisting with other activities of the Tucker Foundation. She is also participating in religious counseling and worship and has responsibility for bringing guest preachers to campus on a regular basis to lead worship in the black tradition. King is a 1975 graduate of Gettysburg College and received her master of divinity degree, cum laude, from Howard University in 1978. Most recently she was involved in campus ministry at Augustana College in Illinois; she also served for five years as a chaplain in the Air Force Reserves and is a member of the governing board for the National Council of Churches of Christ.
■ Carla Carr, technical editor at Kiewit Computation Center for the past four years, has been named assistant director of foundation and corporate relations. Carr will be mainly writing and editing proposals as a part of the solicitation of grants from corporations and private foundations. She received her A.B. in history from Occidental College in 1972 and also holds M.A. and M.Phil, degrees from Yale. Previously, she was a researcher and writer for the Frederick Douglass papers at Yale and an editing consultant to the New Haven Afro-American Society. She joined Kiewit as an assistant editor in 1979 and has been technical editor since 1980.
■ Raymond K. Neff '64, director of computing services at the College, has resigned to become vice chancellor for information systems and technology at the University of California at Berkeley. Neff has been at Dartmouth for two and a half years; he also holds adjunct faculty appointments in community and family medicine, with an emphasis on biostatistics, and in mathematics and computer science, and he is director of biostatistics shared service at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
