Table of Contents

March 1985

Vol. 77, No. 6

FEATURES

Douglas Greenwood

36 "I have Nineteen Thousand. Do I hear Twenty?"

A "buried treasure" of rare books and manuscripts comes to light and benefits Baker Library.

Warren D. Allmon

39 Why Study Evolution?

Once a required course for Dartmouth freshmen, evolution has fallen on hard times, according to Warren Allmon '82, now a grad student in biology at Harvard.

Shelby Grantham

43 Intimate Collaboration

Dartmouth's own Louise Erdrich '76 is well on her way to fame and fortune as a writer. Shelby Grantham reveals how she wrote her critically-acclaimed novel, Love Medicine, with the help of her husband, Professor Michael Dorris.

DEPARTMENTS

Douglas Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks:

"Double Vision"

6 Letters to the Editor

Mark Woodward

21 Book Reviews

Alice Dragoon

23 Wearers of the Green:

Juanita Sanders '85: "Dynamite"

Gayle Gilman

27 Undergraduate Chair:

"Random Thoughts"

Dana Cook Grossman

30 The College

Dirk Olin

48 Alumni Album:

"Edward N. Lorenz '38: Maestro of Meteorological Research"

Jim Kenyon

50 Sports

Teri Allbright

53 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER

Louise Erdrich '76, a member of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa, has already begun to make her mark on American letters. The author of Jacklight, a book of poems, Erdrich recently won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel, Love Medicine. Photo by Thomas Victor, (People Weekly, ® 1985, Time Inc.).