Congratulations to Dr. Philip J. Hanlon! Currently provost at the University of Michigan, he will become Dartmouth’s next president on July 1. The search committee did a superb job in making this selection. Dr. Hanlon, who will be Dartmouth’s 18th president, is a member of the class of 1977 and will be the 10th Dartmouth alumnus to assume the presidency. He earned his doctorate at Cal Tech and spent two years in postdoctoral study at MIT. He taught freshman calculus at Michigan and plans to do the same at Dartmouth.


Dartmouth is indebted to Carol Folt for her leadership during this transitional year; effective July 1 she will resume her role as College provost.


Dartmouth received a record $171.5 million in gifts during 2012 and set four individual fund records as well. Way to go!


Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan a new six-story, 158,000-square-foot research facility that will border the main hospital entrance. At the moment progress has been slowed by the Lebanon, New Hampshire, planning commission, which is concerned about generating more traffic on Route 120. We hope the problem will soon be resolved.


More kudos: Two Tuck School professors, Vijay Govindarajan and Earl Daum, are on Fortune’s list of the world’s top business school professors. Dartmouth grad Louise Erdrich ’76 has just won the prestigious National Book Award for her novel The Round House.


I’m sorry to report the deaths of William R. Osmun and James H. Gilbert. Our condolences to their families.


—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.kendal.org