Table of Contents

March 1987

Vol. 79, No. 6

FEATURES

Jay Heinrichs

18 Passing With A Roll Of The Dice

Senior Matt Mcllwain has hundreds of alumni going through college again for a much lower price.

Philip Booth

22 A Question for Mr. Frost

One word to a great poet made all the difference, later in life, to a Dartmouth man.

Shelby Grantham

24 "These Children Are the Future"

By being the first to run a daycare center in the Ivy League, Dartmouth deals with a burgeoning national issue.

B. J. Schulz and Mary McFadden

28 The Magic Bullet

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Ted Ball and his team of researchers lead the way in developing a potent weapon against bone marrow cancer.

DEPARTMENTS

Jay Heinrichs

4 The Hanover Scene

6 Letters

C. E. Widmayer

8 Dartmouth Authors

Lesley Barnes

10 Undergraduate Chair

Teri Allbright Lee Michaelides

12 The College

Jim Needham

32 Sports

Lee Michaelides

36 Alumni Album The Sages of Hanover

Karen Endicott

38 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER

Surrounded by Hanover businesses that paid for their location, the Green is the basis for a board game invented by Dartmouth student cum game mogul Matt Mcllwain.