1944

This is our second column on '44 Gifts to the World. One need only gaze out from a rocker on the Inn porch to take in significant '44 gifts to the College, its students, and faculty. Walter Burke, lawyer, financial wizard, trustee to multiple institutions including Dartmouth and the New York City Library, and a patron of the arts, is responsible for the Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Building and the Burke Chemistry Laboratory.

John Berry developed his father's incredible idea, the Yellow Pages, into an American institution, and he has supported medicine and medical research, and educational, youth, and cultural programs in hometown Dayton, Ohio, and surroundings. On campus he funded the Berry Sports Center and will be responsible for Baker Library's timely expansion.

Howard Gilman and his family built the Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory in Hanover, and Howard himself has been a mover in and supporter of the arts, especially photography, in New York City and elsewhere.

Leonard Rieser, an early atomic scientist, has served Dartmouth and other institutions for 40 years as professor, dean, provost, and director, and he is still active as chairman of the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago. Marsh Tenney, a renowned professor of physiology, is a world authority on the heart and high-altitude research. As acting dean he saved the Dartmouth Medical School from extinction.

Engineer Jim Browning has been a pioneer explorer in engineering research, adapting "rocket" drills to penetrate granite and ice. Dave Eckels has made all the difference in bringing handicapped access to College and town buildings in Hanover. Clint Gardner has influenced the lives of scores of Soviets and Americans in exchange programs between the two countries, while Dick Morse, an East-West Center coordinator, promoted exchanges between Asia and the United States.

Greg Rabassa, of course, is one of the premier translators in the country, and he has brought the joy and wisdom of Spanish and Portuguese writers to readers everywhere. Professor Joe Goldstein, distinguished teacher of law at Yale since 1956, has a world-wide reputation and influence as a professor at the Yale Child Study Center.

Cramming lots of others into a little space: Jack Aguirra co-founded the first supermarket chain in the country of Colombia, and invented a dehydration process for bananas. Dick Allenby was on the ground floor with NASA. Steve Flynn and Jay McMullen were TV movers and moulders at NBC and CBS, respectively. Clark MacGregor, our only congressman, was also Nixon's campaign manager. Tom Price is a veteran of 40 years directing the VA in the Philippines. Paul Morgan saved lives as an AID director in Southeast Asia. Publisher Dick Ettinger funded the new Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth and is president of the Native American Preparatory School in Santa Fe, N.M. And young Ben Jones, retired insurance executive, is still riding the ambulances as a paramedic.

You will see all these and more at our 50th Reunion, June 10-12, 1994.

That's it. Blessings.

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