CELEBRATED
Alumni Council has existed for 100 years. The first of the organization’s 207 meetings took place on November 7, 1913, in Philadelphia. Three Dartmouth presidents attended the session, which ran from 7:30 p.m. to midnight.
REMEMBERED
Blanche Gelfant, the first woman at Dartmouth to be named a full professor with tenure, died in Hanover. She was 90. Bill Johnson, longtime golf coach and pro at Hanover Country Club, died in September in Pinehurst, North Carolina, at age 73.
LAUNCHED
Students have started a gourmet food club, claiming to fill a campus void. “If you want to do investment banking, there’s a ton of resources, but if you want to go into culinary, not so much,” explained co-president Diksha Gautham ’15.
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Average number of times per day a college student checks a personal digital device while in a classroom, according to a recent study
SECURITY DETAIL No bags and backpacks were allowed in Cook Auditorium when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke November 12.
CHUGGING ALONG Jacko editors celebrated keggy’s 10th birthday by selling new T-shirts adorned with the unofficial mascot’s mug.
SEEKING HARMONY Alpha Delta brothers broke bread with the campus NAACP chapter to forge improved relations.
BONFIRE BLOTTER The bad numbers from Homecoming Weekend: Three arrests, seven hospitalizations and two fights. The good numbers: Dartmouth 20, Yale 13.
what’s brewinG two seniors have started the dartmouth coffee club. “coffee can be a really personal thing,” said one of the founders.
GOOD SPORTS softball player Alyssa Jorgensen ’17 placed first at an athletes’ talent show october 9. women’s basketball won top honors in the team competition.
NEW DIGS Construction began on Triangle House, a new 25-bed affinity house for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at 4 North Park St.