Crossing the Green

■ Peter D. Smith, director emeritus of the Hopkins Center, has been selected by the Trustees to write the official history of the administration of John Sloan Dickey '29, 12th president of Dartmouth. Smith's book on the 25 years of the Dickey presidency will be the latest in a series of official histories of the modern Dartmouth presidencies; one on William Jewett Tucker was published in 1965 and one on Ernest Martin Hopkins in 1977. Dickey, who also had substantial careers as a lawyer, public servant, and teacher, oversaw the reinforcement of Dartmouth's commitment to liberal learning and undertook a number of initiatives that expanded the College's horizon nationally and internationally. He retired from the presidency in 1970 and taught courses through 1977-78. Smith, who came to Hanover in 1969 as director of the Hopkins Center, has been working since 1981 as a member of the staff of the vice president for alumni and public affairs. He has also written extensively for the Alumni Magazine, as a monthly columnist and as book reviews editor.

■ Alex Huppe, assistant dean for external programs at Boston University's School of Public Communication, has been named director of the College's News Services, succeeding Robert Graham '40, who retired last June. Huppe came to BU in 1980 as director of development and continuing education of the School of Public Communication, and he served during 1983-84 as director of BU's Public Communication Institute, which offers a summer program for beginning professionals in journalism and public relations. He had previously spent nine years at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, N.C., first as a professor of English and later as assistant to the president. He was graduated with a B.A. with honors in English in 1969 from Harpur College, SUNY, in Binghamton, N.Y., and he earned an M.A. in English in 1971 at the University of Virginia.

■ William C. Davison '76, who served as assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth from 1978 to 1982, has returned to the College administration as associate director of capital gifts. His interim experience was as vice president and director of development and alumni affairs at the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Davison also received a master of arts in liberal studies from the College in 1981.

■ The 75th anniversary of the nation's oldest collegiate winter weekend was celebrated February 7-10. Attractions of Dartmouth's 1985 Winter Carnival included fireworks, concerts, the Dartmouth Players production of Picnic, a Carnival Balk with swing music of the thirties and forties, top intercollegiate skiing competition, the 60th annual ice show by the Skating Club at Dartmouth, and also more informal athletic contests such as broomball on Occom Pond and snowshoe races on the Green. There was also the usual campus-wide ice sculpture competition, this year on the theme of "A Diamond in the Rough" to commemorate Carnival's diamond anniversary. The giant center-of-the-Green construction was this year of a couple of climbers scaling a multi-faceted diamond emerging from the top of a mountain of rubble.

The crowning glory of the new Hood Mu-seum of Art a 3,300-pound copper-cladcupola was hoisted into place in mid-Feb-ruary. The new building, which is attachedto the Hopkins Center, shown in the back-ground, was designed by architect CharlesW. Moore and is scheduled for completionin September.