Awards and more awards

The establishment of several new awards and scholarships on campus and the receipt of several awards by campus-based honorees have made news in the past month:

■ A new major scholarship was set up through a $188,589 bequest from the estates of James C. Wicker '21 and his wife, Sarah Morrow Wicker. The son of a Dartmouth professor, Wicker was born and raised in Hanover and went on to Harvard Business School and a career in business in Oakland, Calif. Preference in awarding Wicker Scholarships will be given to qualified children of College faculty or to graduates of Hanover High School.

■ A successful businessman whose undergraduate experience at Dartmouth instilled in him a life-long love of literature has established a new annual literary prize for the best fiction or poetry by an undergraduate. David Grogan '54 has funded the Hardy-Skilling ing Prize, named in honor of Thomas Hardy and a noted Hardy scholar who has guided him in his many tours of "Hardy Country."

■ Nancy E. Langston '83, an honors student in English literature, has

become the first Dartmouth woman to be named a Marshall Scholar. She plans to study medieval English literature at Oxford University, continuing her research on Margery Kempe, whose writings provide extraordinary insights into the role of women in the 15th century.

■ Three Dartmouth professors have been awarded grants to lecture or teach abroad during the current academic year. Nelson Kasfir, an associate professor of government, is conducting research on government at the Makerere University in Uganda for six months as a Fulbright Scholar; English Professor Peter Bien also received a Fulbright

award, enabling him to spend three months lecturing on modern Greek literature at the University of Melbourne in Australia; and Maud Naroll, assistant professor of economics, received an Indo-American Fellowship to conduct economics research for four months at the Delhi School of Economics in New Delhi, India.