Physician honored by professorship

Two members of the class of 1925 have endowed a professorship at the Dartmouth Medical School in honor of their physician, Dr. Andrew Thomson Jr. '46. Kenneth F. Montgomery and Robert C. Borwell have established the Andrew Thomson Jr. Professorship with a gift of $1.25 million, the first professorship to be funded at this level at the Medical School. The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees voted to accept this endowment at their meeting in June.

President McLaughlin said, "This Professorship represents many firsts the first chair to be funded at the $1.25 million level, the first to be named for an overseer, and the first to be donated by two members of the same class in acknowledgement of an individual."

Thomson, a Chicago internist, received his medical degree from Indiana University in 1951 and taught at the University of Chicago. He is now president of the medical staff and a trustee of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and president of Jones, Thomson, and Ramsey professional medical association. In May he became chairman of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers.

Montgomery and his wife, Harle, established the Montgomery Fellowships in 1976, a program that has gained national recognition for bringing some of the world's great intellectual and political figures to teach at Dartmouth. Borwell, a former vice president of Marsh and McLennan Insurance in Chicago, is a long-time Dartmouth benefactor whose gifts include the Whitney Campbell '25 Intern Fund, which supports interns at the Dartmouth College News Service and the Alumni Magazine.