Crossing the Green

Pew, Keck grants received

The College was recently awarded $700,000 from the Pew Memorial Trust and $225,000 from the W. M. Keck Foundation. The Pew grant will be used to renovate 11 lecture halls and classrooms during the next two years; it will pay for new seating, lighting, ventilation, and media equipment, including large-screen TVs for computer display. The Keck grant is to develop educational software in the sciences for use on the Macintosh and other personal computers. The need is great, according to Associate Dean Bruce Pipes, because "the technology has far outstripped the educational software available."

CASE kudos

Three alumni affairs programs at Dartmouth are recipients of awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

A gold medal was presented to the College's class newsletter program, which is overseen by Nancy Elliott, director of alumni special services. Two silver medals were awarded the AlumniMagazine, one for articles written by Shelby Grantham, and one for Settling In in Hanover, a collection of essays from the Magazine by Editor Douglas McCreary Green-wood '66.

Shelby Grantham, incidentally, a writer and editor on the staff of the Alumni Magazine since 1976, has been promoted to a new position within Blunt Alumni Center. As director of publications for development, she will be working on a variety of alumni affairs and development case statements and other writing projects.

Dilorio Scholarship set

Andover, Mass., banker John P. Dilorio '56 has been honored by his friends with the establishment of a scholarship fund in his name at Dartmouth. The scholarship is earmarked for financially deserving students from the Merrimack Valley area, with a preference for basketball or rugby players. Dilorio, a senior vice president of the Bank of Boston currently on medical disability, was helped through Dartmouth himself by a scholarship, and two of his four children have gone to the College. The fund is expected to exceed $100,000 this year.

"Dartmouth in Hollywood"

A film based on clips from a broad range of movies featuring Dartmouth alumni as actors, producers, or directors is being produced by Bill Pence, director of films at the College. The film will be shown on September 28 in the new Loew Auditorium in the Hood Museum, as part of the dedication of that facility. It will be shown again in Hanover on September 29, on October 2 in New York, and on October 5 in Los Angeles. For details on all screenings, call 603/646-2005.