DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL
The sophomores lose their monopoly on the summer campus.
Somehow, this summer's campus seems a good bit livelier than last year's. A columnist for The Dartmouth complained that although under the Dartmouth Plan it was supposed to be an exclusive Eden for just the sophomores, he found his path imperiled by racket-toting teen-age tennis campers, the sidewalks crowded with burly high-school football campers, and the paths across the Green ablock with adult culture campers from the Dartmouth Institute, Alumni College, and assorted conventions. Indeed, at ten one morning we were startled to see a parade stretching from Dartmouth Hall toward the Inn, some informal, some in caps and gowns, all shouting at the top of their lungs, "Hey hey, ho ho, monolinguals have to go." Our best guess was that it was Commencement time for classes in English that Professor Rassias gives for promising executives from overseas firms-though the chanters might have been members of some underground movement that the Review has not yet uncovered.
One underground movement that will soon be covered, everyone hopes, is the huge new steam tunnel project that began in back of the power plant and at this writing is crossing East Wheelock Street, at a snail's pace, and about 20 feet down, right in front of New Hampshire Hall. It will pardy replace some of the aging subterranean conduits that have been conveying warmth to all corners of the campus since beyond memory, and at the same time expand the College's heating capacity for an enlarged Baker Library and whatever other new building is contemplated north of it, for the remainder of this century and beyond. In the event of accident, this tunnel, like the catacombs, will be big enough for most of its length
so that repairmen can walk right into it and find and fix the damage without streets or lawns having to be dug up. Meanwhile, motorists are enjoying onelane detours of Jersey barriers and asphalt that curves to the doors of Topliff, New Hamp, and Bartlett, looking for all the world like those water slides for kids at the summer amusement parks.
September 13-14 will see the dedication of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center at its new location on Route 120, 2.9 miles from the old site, as the procession flies.Turning down such notions as a human chain or a parade of antique ambulances to dedicate the new complex, officials decided upon a horsedrawn carriage, containing the actual medical saddlebags of Nathan Smith, the doctor who founded the Med School in 1797. Another notable doctor, C. Everett Koop '37, will be the dedication speaker. He will also be a panelist in a symposium convened by John E. Wennberg, whom you met on the cover of the May issue of this magazine. There will be tours of the new buildings, refreshments, and musical entertainment, and the event will conclude with a special laser light show.
Moving Day, however, will not be until October 5, when a meticulously planned exercise that the Valley News has compared with Hannibal crossing the Alps will kick off at 5:00 a.m. Everything will go, on a split-second schedule. Intensive-care patients will have their life-support systems with them every inch of the way. Every eventuality you can think of has been thought of-for example, if you decide to have an accident that day before 5:00 p.m., come to the old hospital's emergency room; after 5:00, the new one's.
We heard that an informal session was held some weeks ago for suggestions on prominent persons to be invited to the ceremonies. Someone offered the name of the White House's itinerant chief of staff, John Sununu. This was met with, "but how would he get here?"
The Trustees have elected Ira Michael Heyman '51, one of their body since 1982, to be the new chairman, to succeed retiring George Munroe '43, T'44. After a distinguished career in law and government, Heyman was chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley from 1980 to 1990, and a member of the law faculty there since 1959. Ronald B. Schram '64 was elected vice chairman, and since Schram's second term on the board ends next June, nominations are now due for his successor as Alumni Trustee. You are urged to participate in this nomination procedure as you were last year, when three names were presented to the Alumni Council by the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee; the Council approved them as a slate; and one, William H. King Jr. '63, was chosen by alumni in a national election.
Your candidate to succeed Ron Schram must be a graduate of Dartmouth, should possess the knowledge and background to contribute to the governance of the College, and obviously will have to dedicate considerable time and energy to the office. Your
nomination, with the individual's qualifications, should be sent no later than November 1,1991, to A. Duncan Gray Jr. '60, Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee, c/o Mayer, Brown & Piatt, 700 Louisiana Street, 3600 NCNB Center, Houston, TX 77002.
Heights higher, if not loftier, than those of the office of Alumni Trustee, were achieved by the Dartmouth Himalayan Expedition on June 22 and 23, when a nine-man, one-woman Outing Club group reached the 20,956-foot summit of Kalanag in Uttar Pradesh, India. The $35,000 expedition was the concept of Rupin Dang, a '94 from India, and was financed by the students and their families, and from contributions by corporations and friends. To one who was never exactly comfortable going up Bartlett Tower via the stairs, the hazards of hanging glaciers, fog, hail, monsoons, and 50-to 60-degree slopes are unimaginable.
More news on Big Green physical activity: Roger Demment, Yale '72 and the Bulldogs' hockey captain, is Dartmouth's newest hockey coach. Demment was assistant under his one-term predecessor, Ben Smith, has extensive experience (and an M.A.) in exercise physiology as well in coaching, and was largely responsible for recruiting the outstanding skaters in the class of '95 who will play this winter. To coach the 1991-92 basketballers, Dave Faucher will replace Paul Cormier, who resigned to become head coach at Fairfield University. Dave was Paul's assistant for six seasons and is a UNH alumnus.
It's not the easiest route up the ladder from the Ivies into the big time for the Big Green's outstanding athletes. Despite his shutout debut with the San Francisco Giants and a 2-1 record, Mike Remlinger '88 was sent back to Phoenix for more seasoning. Co-captain and play maker James Blackwell '90 was at the rookie training camp of the Boston Celtics, didn't quite make it, but is determined to make some NBA team one way or another. More successfully, hockey's Dave Williams '90 has signed with the San Jose Sharks, a new mem
ber of the NHL, and meanwhile is vying for the chance to become one of the seven defensemen to be selected for the 1992 U.S. Olympic team. And we read that trackwoman Kerry Patrick '93 did well in the modern pentathlon at the Olympic Festival in Los Angeles and is striving for the 1996 games in Atlanta.
Alumni visitors from "the good old days" frequently ask why so few Dartmouth lettermen and -women wear their "D" sweaters—or aren't they awarded any more? To the second question, they certainly are - but to the first, all we can say is that the students must feel that even when it's cool, it's not cool to appear in the sweaters. Anyway, Robert Redford's wardrobe director needs color photos of a block- D sweater from the early twenties for a new film, directed by Redford, based on the novella by Norman Maclean '24, A River Runs Through It. Maclean, you'll recall, picked up an honorary degree at Dartmouth several years ago. He died last year. For the less strenuously inclined, Redford's ward-robist also needs to know what the doctoral gown looked like around 1928.
If in your own high school senior year, or that of your sons or daughters, you felt grateful for The Fiske Guide to Colleges, now's your chance, if you can get here by the end of September, to thank Edward Fiske in person. The Newark Times's education editor is the current Montgomery Fellow. He is here to enjoy the campus atmosphere he describes in his Guide "as if Gloria Steinem, Jesse Jackson, and the Nobel Prize judges have shown up uninvited at a beer blast thrown by the brothers of Animal House." But he told The D that "he said he would send his kids here"-we guess that should be "grandkids."
In our mailbox recently there was a letter from Mike O'Connell '65, now a dairy farmer in Baraboo, Wisconsin, enclosing a warm tribute to the late professor of English Thomas Vance, and the enduring, overpowering impression Vance had made on his life at Dartmouth. O'Connell added, in part, "In view of the sketchy obituary you printed on Professor Vance, would you consider mentioning the proposal that Professor Saccio sent to some of us recently" (that the English Department and Mrs. Vance establish an endowment in Tom Vance's name to purchase books and materials having to do with poetry). Perhaps other alumni, of Vance's inspired years at Dartmouth, 1940-1973, will want to respond to Mike's suggestion. If so, your contribution should go to Barbara Cunningham at Dartmouth's Department of English.
While on the subject of funds, we must mention a lucrative Dartmouth spinoff. Based on a process known as bispecific antibody technology, the result of research conducted by Med School faculty, and supported by $10 million in NIH grants, a joint venture was begun between the College and the Essex Chemical Corporation of New Jersey, culminating in the formation of a new biotechnology company, Medarex. When Medarex went public last June, at $6, Dartmouth's coffers were suddenly $2.7 million richer- for the College had chosen to opt for stock in the company rather than the usual royalties. An excellent decision.
As we write, it is still the lull before the storm for the College's alcohol policy, which takes effect on September 1. Instead of what would probably be gratuitous comment, we plead conflict of interest because of our traditional as- sociation with 500 gallons of the stuff -and take refuge in a portion of a letter which we found in a 1925 issue of this magazine. The letter was written in 1819 by Moses Eastman, class of 1794, to his son Joseph of the class of 1821. "Remember the caution I have given you with regard to ardent spirits & wine -'taste not, touch not, handle not' for of those proceed the most dreadful calamities, which prostrate the best interests of Society."
The new life-care facility, Kendal at Hanover, one of several such centers sponsored by the Society of Friends, has begun to receive its first occupants, and by now should be flourishing. Early reports are that the food is excellent. One friend of ours noted, however, that when one new resident at dinner asked for the wine list the waitress acknowledged his request with nothing but a raised (one might even say "deaniy") eyebrow.
