1952

Last fall Bob Binswanger, headmaster of Boston Latin Academy, was honored by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts with its first John Sloan Dickey Award, an annual award established to recognize individual achievement in community service. In the citation it was noted that, along with long service in education, Bob was the driving force in a program that drew over 150 adults from the alumni association and other community groups into continuing interaction and role modeling with the students at Boston Latin. That school body is as mixed as that at any urban school, with all attendant problems, yet it has achieved college admittance for 97 percent of its graduates.

Considering that the Alumni Fund is in full swing, an interesting memory that Bill Davis sent is worth passing on. It is about the uses of money and what it can grow. Bill and his wife, Olie, found a portrait of a distant relative of Olie's, Julius Hallgarten, who had bequeathed $50,000 to Dartmouth in 1884, unrestricted funds. They gave the portrait to the College, and Dartmouth in turn sent them some history of the results of the bequest: a purchase of land east of Wilson Museum, including the land where the athletic fields are now, and completion of Wilson Hall (then to be the library) and of Rollins Chapel. Both Wilson and Rollins were started with other gifts and challenge grants, but the Hallgarten money allowed both to be finished. Bill's wry comment was about how far what seems a moderate sum today could go then. We can only hope, perhaps, that whatever is given today will be an equivalent part in the life of Dartmouth 100 years from now.

In the winter issue of a publication of Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Perm.) for its alumni and students is a two-page article about Ed Baldridge, head of the history department there since 1984 and professor since 1957. Right now Ed is teaching 17th- and 18th-century American history, but he seems to specialize in students and their appreciation of times present as well as times past.

And from that invaluable source, Dartmouth Medicine, comes news that DickCarleton sailed in a Massachusetts-to-Bermuda sailboat race. His boat won not only its class (evidently a small boat class), but also, against 120 other boats, the entire race.

PO. Box 447, Wayne, PA 19087

40th June 15-18, 1992 Dartmouth '52