Table of Contents

MAY 1985

VOL. 77, No. 8

FEATURES

David T. McLaughlin

36 From the President's Desk: "Renewal of Athletics"

The President addresses the role of athletics in the College.

Peter Blum

37 Alzheimer's Disease

New research at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center tackles the mysteries of a deadly disease. Also included is Margaret Robinson's poignant memoir, "A Stranger in the House," recounting her late husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, and how it changed their lives.

Doug Tifft

40 The Dartmouth Conference Center

And you thought the Conference Center just meant Minary. To many people at the College and to many more who have no connection with Dartmouth at all it means more, a great deal more.

Gabrielle Guise

46 Kappa Kappa Grandpa

One Dartmouth sorority has pioneered a way to reach out to some local alumni. And no one's complaining.

DEPARTMENTS

Douglas Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks

"Footnotes on an Annual Report"

6 Letters to the Editor

Mark Woodward

18 Book Reviews

Georgia Croft

22 Wearers of the Green

Marion Bratesman: "Friend of the media"

Gayle Gilman

28 Undergraduate Chair

"Vox discipulorum"

Dana Cook Grossman

30 The College

Peter Mandel

44 Alumni Album

David R. Gavitt '59: "Steering the Big East to the big time"

Jim Kenyon

48 Sports

Teri Allbright

51 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER The Senior Fence abuts one of America's loveliest college greens. Its tranquility belies the fact that it was a causecelebre among students in the 1890s. The fence was then reserved exclusively for the Seniors for carving canes and singing College songs and underclassmen groused about the lack of a wooden resting -place of their own. TheDartmouth, sympathetic to their cause, editorialized, "Stone curbing is not only hard and cold, but it is extremely injurious to the health. One gets very little inspiration from such a seat." Photo by Nancy Wasserman '77.