You could say a woman started it all.

The person who introduced Eleazar Wheelock to Indian education an act that led to the founding of Dartmouth College—was a Connecticut Mohegan named Sarah Occom. In 1743 she asked the Puritan minister to educate her 20-year-old son Samson, who in turn became Wheelock's protege and raised the money that built Dartmouth. Occom mistakenly thought the school he was helping to fund would educate men and women (not to mention Indians).

Twenty-five years ago Dartmouth finally made good on the idea of coeducation. And in 1995 the College passed yet another milestone when four more women than men announced their intention to enroll in the class of 1999. That got this magazine's staff thinking. It was time for a name change, if only for one issue.

The Dartmouth Alumnae Magazine is grateful to its many contributors, especially guest editor Regina Barreca '79; researchers Amy Fournier '97, Abigail Klingbeil '97, and Tyler tireless Baker archivists Barbara Krieger, Pat Cope, Kim King Zea, Phyllis Gilbert, and Hazen Allen; Janet Henderson MA'73 for her history of women at Dartmouth; Women's Resource Center director Giavanna Munafo; Nancy Serrell of the Office of Public Affairs; and the writers who tell their stories here. We appreciate that our magazine brothers especially Jay, Lee, Dave, and Jim knew when to help, and when not to.

And special thanks to the woman who posed for the cover: Sarah Harris '00, a Connecticut Mohegan and direct descendant of Sarah Occom.

Karen

Issue Editor