1937

1937 classmates filled the DOC house to capacity, as 70 people reminisced, dined, and listened to John Strohbehn, Dartmouth provost and chairman of the Planning Steering Committee, at the Septemer 14 mini-reunion.

Russ Stearns introduced his former Thayer School colleague, who spoke on the recommendations of the Planning Steering Committee. The following summarizes Professor Strohbehn's speech:

The planning process was started in 1989 by President Freedman when he charged the committee to review the academic vision and mission of Dartmouth as it goes into the 21st century.

A major subject of study was resources. The eighties offered new resources with large tuition increases, federal support, and growth in the endowment. Nobody expects that kind of climate in the nineties. In the nineties tuition increases will be in line with the CPI, and federal support will decrease. The academic vision must fit in with the resources available.

Dartmouth has evolved into a niche in higher education quite different from our peers with whom we compare ourselves. We are not an Amherst, Williams, Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. We combine features of all those institutions, emphasizing undergraduate education. The medical, business, and engineering schools have been kept small in size. In the last 30 years we started doctoral programs in the sciences. This mix makes sense for Dartmouth; and as we look at the next decade, the committee doesn't feel we should make major changes to the character of Dartmouth, but we should be worried about its quality.

In short, the major recommendations to the trustees are, according to Professor Strohbehn, to maintain the size of the student body at 4200-4300 and to have Tuck and the medical school remain the same size for the next five to ten vears. Graduate studies should not exceed ten percent of the student body, as voted by the faculty in 1966. At present the figure is six percent. We thank Professor Strohbehn for giving us a vision of Dartmouth's future.

Bob Bosworth is proud that his granddaughter Sarah is a member of the freshman class, as is Missy Blackman, granddaughter of Bob Blackman. Missy is heeling for freshman football manager. Our new head class agent, Alec Mackenzie, has relocated from Elmhurst, N.Y., to 1711 Bellevue Ave., Richmond, VA 23227.

Among those seen at the Penn Game were Herm and Angela Anstatt, with their daughter who is a Dartmouth senior. Billand Patty Rotch win the prize for unusual 50th wedding anniversaries. They celebrated the occasion by climbing Mt. Moosilauke, 4,810 feet. The author of TheEnormous Egg, Oliver Butterworth, lost a battle with cancer and died on September 17. A letter to Fran Fenn from Al andSherry Bryant tells how much they miss being with us at the mini. Our sympathy to Fern Cole, whose son Alan died last year.

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