The Man Who Took Over Dartmouth
"This kid will have as big an impact on Dartmouth as Napoleon did on Europe."
1946
JUNE 24: Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Mildred and Edwin S. Reich '35.
1950
Attends father's 15 th Dartmouth reunion. Also that year, at the
Bob and dad Ed '35.
age of seven, is cast as the baby Jesus in a secondgrade play.
1960
Attends father's 25th Dartmouth reunion.
1963
Applies to Dartmouth early admission, stating "architecture" as his career goal on the application.
1964
SEPTEMBER 9: Goes on a Freshman Trip. "I remember the camaraderie around the crackling tire at Moosilauke," he recalls later. "In. strode these three huge men, John Dickey, and deans Al Dickerson and Thad Seymour. Their height totaled 19 feet!"
SEPTEMBER 13: Moves into 208 Smith Hall with Ed Heald '68. Heald later recalls: "During the first week or so he pulled down a window shade and on it, with a felt marker in the style of a medieval manuscript, composed a pledge to devote outdays to living up to the great opportunities Dartmouth presented. Then we both signed it."
SEPTEMBER 24: Classes begin. Reich takes Introduction to Literary Study, Readings in French Classics, and Introduction to Calculus Honors Section.
SEPTEMBER 25: With an eye on the Rhodes Scholarship, for which some athletics are a prerequisite, Reich becomes a coxswain for the freshman heavyweight rowing team.
NOVEMBER 3: Reich is elected class president.
NOVEMBER 17: Joins studio of Hopkins Center Design Associates.
1965
JANUARY 3: Classes begin. Reich takes French 3, Calculus and Differential Equations, and The Judeo-Christian Tradition.
JANUARY 11: Leads plans for freshman mixer with women from four other colleges. Also launches class newsletter sent to parents.
FEBRUARY 2: Tickets to all Winter Carnival events go on sale in Webster Hall. Many experienced upperclassmen sleep on the porch to be first in line. Reich arrives just before the doors open and passes out numbered slips to create order.
FEBRUARY 19: Goes to Ithaca to attend the first Ivy League Freshman Conference.
MARCH 31: Spring term. Reich takes Introductory Psychology, Public Speaking, and Political Ideals—the latter taught by Government Professor Larry Radway, who confides to a colleague: "This kid will have as big an impact on Dartmouth as Napoleon did on Europe."
APRIL 15: Re-elected class president.
APRIL. 20: Announces plans for first-ever freshman-sponsored "Spring Fling" with two dances, crew races, and a Freshman Glee Club concert.
JUNE 2: Presents Dean of Freshman Albert Dickerson with an oil painting of Tanzi's store as a token of appreciation from the class.
JUNE 11 : Wins citation in psychology course.
JULY 28: Wins William S. Churchill Freshman Prize for "manliness, uprightness, fairness, and respect for duty."
SEPTEMBER 23: Rooms in 104 Smith. Courses taken: Drawing, Playwriting, Greek Literature in Transition, Philosophy of Human Nature.
OCTOBER 5: Helps found a study group considering social facilities for non-fraternity men.
OCTOBER 9: Class of 1968 co-sponsors with the Hopkins Center a concert by Peter, Paul and Mary.
OCTOBER 27: Chairs Undergraduate Council's Committee on the Freshman Year.
NOVEMBER 8: Daily D notes that "an active, en- thusiastic group of '68 leaders, headed by Robert Reich...has catapulted the Frosh Council from an honorary but useless organization to one of the most active arms of student government."
1966
JANUARY 4: Reich takes Introduction to Economics, Playwriting, and Europe since 1715.
JANUARY 5: Wins poster design competition for Winter Carnival musical Once Upon a Mattress.
FEBRUARY 1: Plays a mute king in the Carnival play alongside Jerry Zaks '67.
MARCH 31: Spring term. Takes Introduction to Teaching, The Modern
The freshman won aprize for "manliness."
Novel, and Human Personality.
APRIL 1: Awarded $75 first prize in annual Class of 1866 Oratorical Contest.
APRIL 12: Serves on committee appointed by Palaeopitus to plan changes in student government.
MAY 5: At annual Wetdown Ceremony Reich receives the Milton Sims Kramer award for scholastic performance and dedicated service to the College by an underclassman.
MAY 10: Plays Captain Whit, a pimp, in Dartmouth Players' production of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair.
MAY 25: Wins second prize in the Eleanor Frost Play Contest with I MetHer Only Yesterday in the84th Street Sewer.
MAY 26: Moderates panel discussion on "The Independent and the Fraternity Man" in Spaulding.
JUNE 3: Named Rufus Choate Scholar.
JUNE 10: Returns as King Septimus the Silent in a Commencement production of the musical Once Upon a Mattress. After miming the whole play he gets to speak the curtain line: "I...I...I..." Jester Jerry Zaks cries, "The King speaks?" Reich shouts "I can...I can ! And I have a lot to say !"
JULY: Becomes a resident tutor with the A Better Chance (ABC) Program which brings promising disadvantaged high school students to Dartmouth for intensive pre-prep school training. Writes and directs a western parody, Who'sGot the Salad?, performed by ABC students in the Hopkins Center.
SEPTEMBER 23: Moves into a single room in Cutter Hall. Begins drawing cartoons for Jack-O- Lantern. Selects courses: American Art, Supreme Court and Constitutional Development, and European Intellectual History.
SEPTEMBER 29: Founds Dartmouth Ex- perimental College to create unaccredited courses. The organization has 700 participants by the end of school year and eventually evolves into Miniversity.
DECEMBER 28: Receives a citation from Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Biography, "for general excellence and most helpful participation in the daily work of History 52, and for a remarkable term paper entitled, 'The Sad Truth About Tearful Comedy.'"
1967
JANUARY 3: Selects Intermediate Course in Writing, European History to 1715, and Readings in History.
JANUARY 21: Entering the Interfraternity Play Contest for Foley House, writes, directs, and plays the father in When the MoonShines Over the Garbage Pitsof Peoria, Illinois.
MARCH 29: Takes The Renaissance and the Reformation, Survey of Musical Art, and Philosophy of Art.
APRIL 21: Elected president of the Undergraduate Council by acclamation which automatically makes him president of Palaeopitus in his senior year.
JUNE 7: Spring term ends. Reich again named Rufus Choate Scholar, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, wins another first prize in Class of 1866 Oratori- cal contest, and is given Charles Downer Hazen Fellowship.
JUNE 13: Begins summer in Washington as an intern in Robert Kennedy's Senate office supported by funds provided by the class of 1926.
SEPTEMBER 23: Moves into Casque & Gauntlet
SEPTEMBER 25: Addresses Convocation along with President John Sloan Dickey. Reich sees "evidence on this campus of an awareness, a deepening concern, and a growing commitment to action."
OCTOBER 11: Begins hosting radio talk show on WDCR to discuss student activities, student-administration conflicts, and current issues.
DECEMBER: Goes to Boston for a final interview with the Rhodes Scholar selection committee.
1968
JANUARY 4: Reich is named a Rhodes Scholar along with C&G class- mates Tom Brewer and John Isaacson.
JANUARY 29: Goes to Washington to attend week-and-a-hall-long conference of 50 mayors. Meetings are sponsored by the President's Council for Youth Opportunities (CYO). Reich is one of two student advisors to the Council.
FEBRUARY: Travels throughout New Hamp- shire campaigning for Eugene McCarthy.
MAY 30: In packed Kresge Auditorium delivers Senior Fellowship oral presentation on Gothic Architecture in the Middle Ages and during the Nineteenth-Century Gothic Revival.
JUNE 7: Identified as "The Tiniest BMOC" in Time magazine story on "Cynical Idealists."
June 14: Addresses Class Day. The Daily Dartmouth article on the speech is the 84th done on Reich in his four undergraduate years.
JUNE 16: Graduates summa cum laude.
SEPTEMBER: Traveling to England with 31 other Rhodes Scholars, a seasick Reich is served chicken soup by Bill Clinton.
Those who knew him at Dartmouth are not suprised about his dual career.
High school graduation shot.
Reich (left) played a pimp in a Carnival play.
As a Jacko staffer he cartooned and fished for gag lines.
Reich was class speaker and left summa cum.
A quarter century after serving chicken soup to his seasick friend, Bill Clinton put Reich on his economic team.
Wins second prize for play, I Met Her Only Yesterday in the 84th Street Sewer.
Identified as "The Tiniest HOC" in a Time magazine story on "Cynical Idealists."
