Guggenheims: Four at One Blow

Four Dartmouth professors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 1985-86, the highest number ever recorded in a single year for the College's faculty. Dartmouth's recipients are among 270 scholars, scientists, and artists chosen from 3,548 applicants to share more than $5.4 million in awards or an average of $20,000 each. The Dartmouth recipients are English professor Noel Perrin, who will write a book on the effects of robots on contemporary culture; art professor Varujan Boghosian, who will spend a year in Rome sculpting; drama professor Errol Hill, who will write a history of Afro-American theater in the United States; and classics professor James Tatum, who will work on a book on the role of fiction in ancient Greek biographies.

President McLaughlin commented that Dartmouth "takes pride in these well-deserved honors," noting that "this extraordinary recognition is testimony to the quality of our undergraduate academic program." And Dean of the Faculty Dwight Lahr called the four awards in the same year "truly an outstanding event."

In addition to the four faculty members, Dartmouth was able to claim another recipient in this year's Guggenheim awards. Louise Erdrich '76 also received a Guggenheim, for fiction writing.