Stephen Kadish, a Dartmouth senior vice president and President Kim’s closest counselor—a man who has helped to solve financial problems for institutions far larger than Dartmouth—has been appointed to help solve Dartmouth’s financial woes. He will be responsible for helping to implement a plan to cut $100 million from the College budget over the next two years. Dartmouth’s endowment has fallen 23 percent ($835 million) to $2.8 billion. As I write this in mid-December the Service Employees International Union has just announced it’s considering a campaign to add more than 1,000 College blue-collar workers to its ranks—an additional headache for Kadish.


Now for the good news: Foreign Policy magazine ranked Dartmouth’s international relations curriculum as one of the leading undergraduate programs of its kind in the country; U.S. News & World Report named Dartmouth No. 1 in the country in undergraduate teaching; Dartmouth is No. 1 in the Ivies and No. 6 in the nation in the number of students studying abroad; and a Dartmouth education is No. 9 in the Kiplinger magazine list of “Best Values.”


More Dartmouth in the news: On a recent 60 Minutes program CBS’ Steve Kroft interviewed two Dartmouth Medical School professors talking about end-of-life healthcare; a student-run vegetable oil-powered bus, advocating sustainable fuels, recently completed its fifth annual cross-country trek; and congratulations to Heather Halstead ’97 for founding Reach the World, an effort to teach about other cultures in underfunded public schools.


We’ve certainly passed on our Big Green loyalties! One hundred fifty-five children of our fellow classmates have attended Dartmouth, as well as 30 of their grandchildren. (The figures include the class of 2012.)


—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 371, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@valley.net