1960

Talk about giving your all to Dartmouth! Barry Maclean is paying two tuitions right now, for daughter Gillian '95 and son Duncan '94, has served on the Thayer board of trustees since 1974 during which he helped to raise an endowment of $20 million to keep the engineering school alive and is now in his own freshman year as a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. It's work; Trustees hold five two-and-a-half day meetings per year, and with committee responsibilities the load totals about a month's labor a year. Barry is assigned to the finance and curriculum committees, and he says that the College faces two issues in his areas of responsibility: how to contain costs so as to keep tuitions under control, and how to plan what majors students of the future will specialize in. Barry says he supports the board's decision to keep cutting the percentage by which tuition increases every year—it's.going up by 6.1 percent next year—because "the Ivy League is in danger of pricing itself out of the market. Tuition at a good state school is only about half of what it is at Dartmouth." Barry said that only about 20 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates major in math, sciences, and engineering, which he says is below the Ivy League average and below what he thinks it ought to be. Since graduating from Thayer Barry has run his family's engineering and manufacturing firm in Illinois, which now has 1,000 employees and nine plants. Barry and his wife, Mary Ann, are both deeply involved in education policy at home. She is on the state board of education, and Barry, as chairman of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, helped create an experimental German-style apprenticeship program to provide first-rate job skillsto kids who aren't going to college.

For one reason or another (possibly advancing age) we only have two '60 progeny in this year's freshman class. The other (beside Gillian Maclean) is Winfield Robinson's son David. Eight '6os have children in the class of '94: Barry, Martin Andic, Walter Daniels, NatGorton, Craig Jameson, Joe Mandel, Peter Scott, and Phil Serlin. In the junior class are the kids of Tom Brock, Paul Cantor,Urban Hirschey, Bruce Molinaroli, BobPostel, Leo Schmolka, and Shiao-Wei Shen. Following a grand tradition now one year old, the grads and dads of the senior class, 15 in number, will get a column devoted just to them after graduation.

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