Class Note 1943
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Dartmouth set a donation record, $325 million, in the year ending June 30—27 percent more than a year ago. College officials call this “a powerful affirmation of Dartmouth’s academic vision.”
Some statistics on the 1,115 members of the incoming class of 2019: 9 percent are the first in their families to attend college; 19 percent are legacies; 26 percent are students of color; 8 percent are citizens of foreign countries; 90 percent were in the top 10 percent of their class. The mean SAT score was 2,145 (out of 2,400).
Dartmouth rates No. 2 nationally, behind Princeton, in the latest Forbes magazine’s “Grateful Grads Index” (GGI). As one measure of a college’s return on investment from a student point of view, Forbes established the GGI: gifts received from grads across 10 years, divided by the total number of full-time students. The assumption is that the donations indicate the success of the alumni and their gratefulness to their alma mater.
The Dickey Center Institute for Arctic Studies has just received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The institute offers an Arctic field experience to high school students and their teachers from Denmark, Greenland and the United States as well as to graduate students from Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is one of a handful of institutions partnering with the Franklin Project, which offers an opportunity for accepted students to take a gap year to engage in civil service before coming to Dartmouth. The program helps to create more mature undergraduates.
Remember the old Moosilauke Lodge from your DOC days? The College plans to replace the 77-year-old building, promising to retain the original spirit. The hope is that private donations will pick up part of the cost. Construction will begin in the fall of 2016.
We regret to report the deaths of Burrows Barstow Jr. and Calvin S. Osberg. Our condolences to their families.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org
Some statistics on the 1,115 members of the incoming class of 2019: 9 percent are the first in their families to attend college; 19 percent are legacies; 26 percent are students of color; 8 percent are citizens of foreign countries; 90 percent were in the top 10 percent of their class. The mean SAT score was 2,145 (out of 2,400).
Dartmouth rates No. 2 nationally, behind Princeton, in the latest Forbes magazine’s “Grateful Grads Index” (GGI). As one measure of a college’s return on investment from a student point of view, Forbes established the GGI: gifts received from grads across 10 years, divided by the total number of full-time students. The assumption is that the donations indicate the success of the alumni and their gratefulness to their alma mater.
The Dickey Center Institute for Arctic Studies has just received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The institute offers an Arctic field experience to high school students and their teachers from Denmark, Greenland and the United States as well as to graduate students from Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is one of a handful of institutions partnering with the Franklin Project, which offers an opportunity for accepted students to take a gap year to engage in civil service before coming to Dartmouth. The program helps to create more mature undergraduates.
Remember the old Moosilauke Lodge from your DOC days? The College plans to replace the 77-year-old building, promising to retain the original spirit. The hope is that private donations will pick up part of the cost. Construction will begin in the fall of 2016.
We regret to report the deaths of Burrows Barstow Jr. and Calvin S. Osberg. Our condolences to their families.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org