Dr. Wheelock's Journal
Divers Notes & Observations
Among June'S Grand OLD seniors now safe at last in the wide, wide world were an unusual number of football lettermen and so when Coach John Lyons spoke to a group of us this morning, we expected that we might hear the well-worn "It's going to be a building year." Not on your wishbone formation. Position by position, John went down the roster until after a halfhour or so some of us felt that the Green could again be Ivy cham pionship bound.
It's already a building year, however, everywhere else in Hanover, demanding plenty of local knowledge to drive or even walk from one end of town to the other. The sidewalks and curbs of South Main Street are undergoing a brick and granite transformation,
The eight by eight foot steam tunnel, boring along beneath the east side of the campus, has reached Webster Hall as we write, and before this time next year should reach a point, we think, across from the SAE house—from which the campus's loop of steam mains, many of them dating back to the 1950s, will be able to serve Burke (the new chemistry building), the planned Baker Library expansions, and the buildings across the street from the old hospital. Aboveground, Byrne Hall, the new addition to Tuck School, expects to be ready in May, six months ahead of its scheduled completion date. And back of Hopkins Center, the undergraduate dormitory known as The Lodge (older alumni will remember it when it was the rickety and un-soundproof Motor Lodge) is being completely modernized.
To give Buildings and Grounds credit, they're quick at picking up after themselves. Grass is even starting to grow on the corner of the Green where they began their more visible excavations. We heard, though, that they had no answer to one alumnus's question whether there was any danger of the steam tunnel melting the snow sculpture next Carnival.
ALSO TO THE Administration's credit, as other institutions flounder in seas of multimillion budget deficits, is the announcement that the fiscal year just ended has seen an actual surplus and that the next three years, in fact, may be years of completely balanced budgets. As President Freedman said in last month's issue, the reductions to achieve this goal have not been painless or easy, but combined with the Trustees' insistence on a progressively lower increase in rates of tuition, the net result should add financial health to Dartmouth's other healthy attributes.
with the complex challenges facing Dartmouth." You are urged to propose such candidates and their qualifications to your representative on the Alumni Council, or directly to the chairman of its Nominating and Search Committee, I. Robert Levine, Senior Vice President, UST,100 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830-5342. Three nominees (plus any petition candidates) will run in the election to be held next spring, and the winner will take Trustee Heyman's place in June. You are asked to send your nominations as soon as you can the deadline is November 3,1992.
Incidentally, many alumni were saddened to read of the death of one of Dartmouth's most respected Trustees of the past, F.William Andres'29, last August 4.Bill Andres was the board's chairman from 1972 to 1977, and his tenure saw the arrival of coeducation. His numerous activities as an undergraduate, ineluding cluding Paleopitus and president of the Interfraternity Council, were equalled only by his services to the College as an alumnus.Expect an obituary in a future issue.
A WRONG CALL LAST MONTH we said that Tracy Hagan '92 was the first woman to receive the Athlete of the Year award. Missed by only ten years. Gail Koziara '82, an all around at everything as we remember, won the award,known as the Kenneth Archibald Athletic Prize, that year. Next alumna we honor is whitewater kayaker Dana Chladek '85, who just won a bronze medal in the Olympics. In only the third time he ever ran the Olympic distance (the second was when he qualified for the U.S. team), Bob Kempainen '88 finished 17th in the marathon. This summer, the crew continued to distinguish itself by winning three events at the Royal Canadian Henley regatta in St. Catherine's, Ontario. The victory of the heavyweight men's four in the 2000 meters was especially gratifying, as they beat a Penn AC four that included two members of the Penn AC eight which beat the Green in England this summer. And we have the Cincinnati Bengals, headed by their freshman coach Dave Shula '81, to root for this Fall.
San Francisco investment executive William Clark '42, as part of his 50th Reunion gift, has given Baker Library his 232-volume collection of copies of Melville's Moby-Dick. This we learned from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which incidentally reported what a French academic recently said: "The reason in America it's very important what ten books freshmen will have to read, is because everybody knows they'll never read another book afterwards."
Because of its unrelenting support of those who decree that we all must read the "great books" (such as MobyDick) lest we be scorned as subhuman, this brings us to The Review. The Harvard Lampoon sneaked into town a couple of months ago and deposited throughout the dorms one of the better efforts of its 116-year existence, a parody issue of The Review. In paroxyms of perturbation, the Reviewers called the cops, vowed to sue, and even got Safety and Security to threaten the Lampooners with arrest if they ever showed up in Hanover again. In their inability to take it as well as dish it out, we feel that they blew their big chance to proudly proclaim their arrival on the big-time publishing scene, along with Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The Congressional Record, and so many others that have received a Lampoon pie in the face.
Personals: John Strohbehn will reembark on his 30 year teaching career (at Thayer) after six outstanding years as Provost of the College. To single out any one of his accomplishments would be to minimize so many of the others but we could at least mention his headship of the Planning Steering Committee which will guide the College well into the 21st century. Dr. Stan Roman '64, associate dean of the Med School from 1981 to 1987, has been named a charter trustee of the College. A handsome gift from Jeffrey P. Sudikoff '77 will provide headquarters for the department of Mathematics and Computer Science when the mental health center of the old hospital is renovated. And former Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop '37 and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center have announced the formation of the Koop Institute, whose purpose will be "to create a doctor for the 21st century," as likely to be female as male, with a devotion to the profession that should begin even in premed years, and aware of the paramount importance of the doctor-patient relationship in any modern national health-care system. The Institute will also emphasize outcomes research, the discipline pioneered at the Med School by Dr. Jack Wennberg, and which we described to you briefly some months ago.
Words To Live By? Bill Carpenter '50, upon accepting the Alumni Award at the last Council meeting: "At times like this, you become a true expert in exaggerated reverie."
It's a building year fornearly everything atDartmouth but thefootball team.
