Crossing the Green

Dorris gets grant

Michael Dorris, professor of anthropology and Native American Studies, has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation's Research Fellow Program for Minority Group Scholars. Dorris, the first Dartmouth professor to receive the prestigious award, was one of only 12 applicants selected from a pool of 400. The foundation is contributing $25,000 to research Dorris is undertaking on the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Native American community. He and his family will move to a reservation in Minnesota for a year while he studies the effects of FAS on such a closed population.

Kresge gives $900,000

The Kresge Foundation has moved the College $900,000 closer to realization

of the next stage in the Berry Sports Center. The grant challenges Dartmouth to raise the balance of the project costs, $14.5 million, within two years. The Kresge Foundation this year awarded $4O million to 140 institutions of higher education, health care, social services, science and conservation, religion, and public policy.

Debaters hosted

The prestige of the Dartmouth Forensic Union made a high school debating program run at the College a success in only its second year. Founded last year by Ken Strange, co-director of forensics at Dartmouth, the Dartmouth Debate Institute attracted 116 students from across the country. A strict program of instruction and library research is conducted by current and former Dartmouth debaters as well as coaches and debaters from other schools.

Brochures win gold

Three brochures used in the 1985 Alumni Fund have been awarded a gold medal for excellence by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The brochures were entered in CASE'S fundraising direct mail program category; from 67 entries, five received gold medals, seven silver, and one bronze. Elizabeth Roberts '79, associate director of the Alumni Fund, coordinated the brochures around the theme "Why Dartmouth?" She based the three-part mailing on individual statements from students, faculty, and alumni about why they came to Dartmouth.

Development hires two

Two new faces have joined the College's development staff. Kenneth Spritz, formerly director of external relations for the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum, has been named director of foundation and corporate relations, and Danielle Dyer '81 has been appointed assistant director of capital giving.

Spritz, who has been at the Hop/Hood since 1979, earned his B.A. from the University of California and a master of fine arts from Sarah Lawrence. Prior to coming to Dartmouth, he was a program assistant in the museum aid program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Dyer brings back with her to Dartmouth extensive experience in computer software marketing and radio journalism. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the women's varsity crew team and she received her degree with distinction in English and urban studies. Grad student wins awards

Susan Gilbert, a graduate student in biology, has received two awards for outstanding research papers in her field, cell biology. The Association for Women in Science gave her its Judith Poole Memorial Award, and the American Society of Zoologists gave her its award for "the most outstanding paper by a graduate stu dent."