Time to Celebrate
The College has plenty of 250th anniversary events planned for the remainder of the year. Here are a few.
The College has plenty of 250th anniversary events planned for the remainder of the year. Here are a few.
Time to Celebrate
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The College has plenty of 250th anniversary events planned for the remainder of the year. Here are a few.
DIGGING DARTMOUTH: This anthropology project invites guests to get dirty at an archaeological excavation of an 18th-century house site on campus led by anthropology department chair Jesse Casana. Using old maps and modern technology, he hopes to locate a privy or well that hasn’t been affected by modern construction, and then the digging begins. June 3-16
RESTAGING THE TAKEOVER: Laura Edmondson, chair of the theater department, is writing a short script based on the 1969 student takeover of Parkhurst. She’ll be casting students for a performance during the 50th reunion of the class of 1969. “Production values such as costumes will be minimal,” she notes. The play will kick off a panel discussion about the protest. June 7, Moore Theater
DARTMOUTH’S 21ST CENTURY: Barbara Will, associate dean for the arts and humanities, moderates “an event that brings together senior leaders on campus to discuss the future of Dartmouth [and] the liberal arts university in the 21st century,” she says. June 15, Spaulding Auditorium
100 YEARS OFWOMENONTHE FACULTY: “We are celebrating the role played by women faculty, [who] were not just professional pioneers but, once Dartmouth became coeducational, crucial role models for the women who took their classes,” says conference co-organizer John Kopper, professor of Russian and comparative literature. November 8
DARTMOUTH AND THE MILITARY: Students will share their research from interviews with alumni veterans as part of a symposium on Dartmouth’s history with the military, led by Roberta Stewart, professor of classical studies. “The broad goal is to create a history of the campus experience of war and military service across time,” says Stewart. Veterans Day, November 11
ART FOR DARTMOUTH: The Hood Museum will exhibit recent gifts to the collection during the fall term, according to director John Stomberg. “Alumni are invited to consider donating significant works of art that will help take the Dartmouth collection to the next level,” he says.
TUITION 3.9% Increase for the 2019-20 academic year
GIFTS $10 million Donation from George “Skip” Battle ’66 to aid first-gen and low-income students
