Fast Company magazine recently named President Kim one of its 100 most creative people in business for launching the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The center will bring together the best thinkers across disciplines, connecting them with the best business activists to find ways to improve healthcare delivery. The center will also offer the nation’s first master’s in this specialty. 


Dartmouth will lead a nationwide initiative to combat college binge drinking using a strategy that’s been successful in public health campaigns in Peru and Rwanda. More than 30 colleges have signed on to take part in the 18-month program. Nationally 2,000 students die each year from alcohol related injuries and close to 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking (five or more drinks for a man at one sitting; four or more for a woman).


At Commencement, under threatening skies, a large audience heard talk show host Conan O’Brien in a mostly humorous address, urge the new graduates to turn misfortune into opportunity and disappointments into determination. George H.W. Bush was among those receiving an honorary degree.


This year the average salary for full-time Dartmouth professors is $157,657, placing them 17th among all U.S. colleges and universities. Factor in healthcare benefits, retirement, etc., and compensation rises to $203,140.


We had our wild days back in the 1940s, but I don’t think any of us could tie the antics of two students who recently fell 44 feet from the roof of the Alpha Delta house at 3 a.m. They survived.


I’m sorry to report the deaths of Forbes Delany, Ray Funk, Bob Gray, Herb Marx, Don McCorkindale and Harry Sayre.


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