FOUNDATIONS & CORPORATIONS

Corporations and foundations contributed $8.6 million to Dartmouth's fund-raising totals in fiscal 1986. Corporate giving increased dramatically during this period, exceeding last year's total by more than $1 million. And corporate matching gifts in fiscal 1986 bested last year's total, which was itself an all-time record high, at over $1.8 million.

Among the year's most significant gifts was an equipment grant of $893,525 from the Xerox Corporation to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science for workstations, laser printers, computers, and associated software. Another important grant came from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, which provided $100,000 toward an Interdisciplinary Image Processing Laboratory for Engineering and Earth Sciences.

Major foundation grants include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's supplemental grant of $365,490 to the Dartmouth Institute for Better Health for research into health promotion for older Americans. In addition, a $300,000 three-to-one challenge grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been matched to endow a Presidental Venture Fund to support innovative educational projects.

A number of important grants that will be paid in the future were also approved this year. The Charles A. Dana Foundation granted $485,000 to Dartmouth to train college language instructors and prepare instructional materials; the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $175,000 in support of a visiting fellows program for the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics; and the George I. Alden Trust made a $100,000 two-to-one matching grant to establish a Medical School scholarship fund.

In October, Kenneth Spritz, formerly at the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum, was appointed Director of the Office of Foundation and Corporate Relations. In May, Katherine Robertson, who had been Assistant Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Smith College, came to Dartmouth as Associate Director. They join Carla Carr, Assistant Director, in overseeing the College's relationships with corporations and foundations.

William H. Spoor '46, retired chairman of the Pillsbury Company, was honored in February by the establishment of TheSpoor Dialogues on Leadership, funded by a $500,000 grantto Dartmouth from Pillsbury. To inaugurate this new series, Mr. Spoor addressed classes and delivered a public lecture.