DARTMOUTH'S IDEAL IMAGE

EVERYBODY, IT SEEMS, WANTS THE College to "communicate" better, to improve the image held by the outside world. It seems that few people, however, are saying what it is that should be communicated. Just what image should the public have of Dartmouth? With this thought in mind, we approached a variety of people within the Dartmouth community and asked them to answer the following question: "When you say the word 'Dartmouth' to the person on the street, what would you like to see instantly come to mind?"

Karl Furstenberg

Dartmouth's director of admissions

"I WOULD LIKE TO have people recognize Dartmouth as a college that provides an absolutely first-rate academic program...with an emphasis on undergraduate education but the resources of a much larger institution, in an environment where there is opportunity for wonderfully close relationships with interesting people."

Bill Monigomery '52

President and CEO, Xerox Credit Corporation; President, Dartmouth Alumni Council

"IF YOU HAD TO LIM it it to two words: quality education. And that education, if you could expand on that, would be not only the academic but also the people experiences and the life experiences from the culture and the society that make up 'Dartmouth.'"

Kelly Shriver '92

News editor, The Dartmouth

"I SOMETIMES FEEL I'M CONSTANTLY defending Dartmouth to people who have paid too much attention to the bad press in the past few years. I hope people have thought about what they've read and that they consider Dartmouth a prestigious school where controversy is worth examining."

PaiilArgcnti

Director of communications, adjunct associate professor of management communications. Tuck School

"I DON'T THINK DARTMOUTH'S IMAGE should be one thing to everyone. But given the question: excellence first in terms of education—and a perfect environment for that. Dartmouth should be known for very high-quality teaching and a faculty who care more about their students than that of any other Ivy League school."

Jere Daniell '55

Dartmouth professor of history

"THE INSTITUTION THAT GIVES THE BEST undergraduate education in the country and combines that with a faculty that has the professional standing of faculties at major universities...faculty members who are good scholars, yet people for whom the effectiveness of their teaching is as important or more important than their professional work in academics."

Kevin Prithett '91

Farmer editorial writer, The Wall Street Journal; Editor-in- chief, Dartmouth Review

"DARTMOUTH 'OUGHT' TO BE A FARAWAy New England citadel of free thought, set upon a hill way above petty politics. Dartmouth 'ought' not only be a place of free thought, but a place where it is taught that this free thought has its basis in absolutes—the absolutes that make up the Western civilization we live in. Dartmouth 'ought' to be the epitome of equality, a place not unlike the color-blind paradise so eloquently described in Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Dartmouth 'ought' to be a school that prepares its students to serve; each man or woman should be imbued with pictas, a sense of duty to country, family, and his or her personal God.

Kate Stith-Cabranes'73

Dartmouth Trustee; Professor of law, Yale Lay School

"AN INTELLECTUALLY VIBRANT COLLEGE in an historic and remarkably beautiful setting; a faculty of distinction committed to challenging and creative undergraduate teaching as well as to continuing scholarly research; extraordinary extracunicular opportunities in the arts, the outdoors, athletics, and community service among others; highty talented and motivated young men and women of all backgrounds working, learning, and playing together- and taking advantage of the best liberal arts education in the country.

Woody Klein '51

Editor, Think magazine (IBM): fanner press secretory to former New York Mayor John Lindsay; chairman, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Editorial Board ;

''Dartmouth should be seen as a college on the leading edge of academics, inter nationalism (students from all parts of the world), and athletics. We should continue our great tradition of being a special place for well-rounded men and women who want to play an active role in the world. We have been a source of national and international leaders and should continue to be seen in that light.

Karl Furstenberg

Bill Montgomery

Woody Klein