Capital Giving & Endowments

1986-87 was a year marked by celebrations. The festivities began on a crisp Saturday in November when over 500 friends and supporters of Dartmouth rowing turned out for the dedication of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse. That evening, Thaddeus Seymour '49a, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing, announced that gifts and pledges to the new boathouse totaled over $1,285,000, exceeding the goal set for construction and endowment of this magnificent new building.

The big event in the spring was the dedication of the new $8.8 million John W. Berry Sports Center, the centerpiece of a $16.5 million Dartmouth College Athletic Council building and renovation project. Almost 1,000 people heard the keynote address by John Berry '44, whose generosity, along with that of his family and other key donors, made the project possible.

Following the dedication, a panel of distinguished experts discussed the role of the scholar athlete in the 1980s. This symposium was held in the Leede Arena, the new home for Dartmouth College basketball. Edward H. Leede '49 and his wife Margaret Anne of Midland, Texas, joined with children Kevin, Michael 'Bl, John, Peter, and Katie '85 to make this latest gift to Dartmouth a family benefaction.

First-time visitors to the new Berry Sports Center marveled at the state-of-the-art squash/racquetball facilities and the magnificent new 4,000-square-foot Kresge weight training facility, named in honor of The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan.

Amid the celebrations for completed capital projects came the announcement by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center of construction of a new facility, composed of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Dartmouth Medical School, and the Hitchcock Clinic. To be located just three miles from the center of campus, the entirely modern and fully- integrated center will provide the Upper Valley with one of the finest medical complexes in the nation.

In February, President McLaughlin made the dramatic announcement that Naomi and Robert C. Borwell '25 had pledged $7.5 million to the Dartmouth Medical School to serve as the cornerstone for construction of the new Medical Center. The Borwells' gift is the largest individual gift ever received by the Medical School, and the first research building in the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will be named in their honor.

Other support for the Medical School was received through the establishment of the Leroy Garth Chair in Anesthesiology. The chair was given by Dr. Andrew Thompson '46 in honor of Doctor Garth, father of Harle Garth Montgomery. Harle and Ken Montgomery '25 are longtime supporters of Dartmouth. The Medical School also received an anonymous gift to support an endowed professorship in pharmacology and to establish an endowment for junior faculty fellowships.

Elsewhere on the campus, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration announced plans for expansion. David Lubrano TU '56 heads the Overseers Development Committee for The Tuck Initiative, a capital drive seeking funds for new classrooms, faculty and administrative spaces, improved dining facilities and endowment for programs and faculty. A major capital campaign at the Thayer School has reached 80% of its $25 million goal. Under the guidance of Campaign Chair Peter R. Brown '49 TH '49, the campaign will fund new facilities and endowment, as well as provide unrestricted funds. In May, the Thayer School announced the Walter and Dorothy Gramm Professorship in Engineering, presented by W. Patrick Gramm '52 of Thayer's Board of Overseers in honor of his parents.

Finally, Pat and John Rosenwald '52 TU '53 of New York City demonstrated their commitment to the scholarly purposes of Dartmouth by endowing a chair for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Designed to promote both teaching and research, the Rosenwald Chair is funded at the $1.25 million level. A good year! .

CRIMSON DAY FOR DARTMOUTH PARENTS

Monday, June 22. Zimmerman Lounge looked like Cambridge. Harvard banners, Harvard balloons, Harvard tee shirts, Harvard cocktail napkins—all to honor retiring Director of the Dartmouth Parents Fund, Tom Campion, Harvard '38 and Dartmouth Parent '64, '67, and '70. Tom steps down after nearly a decade of devotion to Dartmouth. When he became director in 1978, the Parents Fund was at $167,701; he leaves it tipping the scales at $564,687—having himself raised over $10 million from non-alumni parents. His success and dedication were acknowledged at the retirement party by President McLaughlin, who made a surprise announcement of the Thomas B. Campion Scholarship Fund at Dartmouth established in honor of the splendid work and wit of this worthy non-graduate.

A 55th CELEBRATION

The Class of 1932 celebrated its 55th Reunion with a "funding associates" project to encourage endowment and life income gifts and confirmed bequest provisions. Under the able leadership of Arthur E. Allen, Jr. and John O. Zimmerman, a total of $2,176,140, including $533,042 in life income gifts, was the happy result.

Ed Leede '49, left, and John Berry '44discussing the new John W. BerrySports Center before the dedicationceremony this May.

Robert and Naomi Borwell '25 with President McLaughlin at a July luncheoncelebrating the Borwells' $7.5 million gift to the Dartmouth Medical School

Retiring Director of the DartmouthParents Fund Thomas B. Campion,Harvard '3B, and his wife, authorNardi Reeder Campion.