At this year’s Commencement on Sunday, June 10, 1,779 undergraduate and graduate degrees were awarded. Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America (TFA), was the keynote speaker. (Thirty-seven of this year’s graduates have signed up with TFA.) Outgoing President Kim in his farewell remarks said, “Dartmouth has made me a better human being and for that I thank you.”


Parts of the Hanover Inn opened in time for graduation even though the $41-million renovation is not yet completed. It’s been expanded to include a grand ballroom that will hold up to 330 people and additional conference and guestrooms. The Inn is now more contemporary and so are the rates—$300 to $600 a night.


Plans are under way to double the size of the 40,000-square-foot Hood Art Museum to showcase more of the nearly 70,000 objects it has been unable to display. The expansion will include the old Wilson building and will have a new lobby, café and gift shop. Hopkins Center, Hood and the new performing arts building will comprise the Dartmouth arts district, which will stretch from Wheelock Street to Lebanon Street. The College has also approved a new academic center to be built on North College Street. It will promote interdisciplinary work between the social science departments, Geisel Med School, Dartmouth Institute and Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery. Further plans at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center include a new 160,000-square-foot building, Williamson, which will house physicians from DHMC and researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine.


Expansion! Expansion! Expansion!


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