Class Note 1943
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to give Dartmouth $800,000 to finance studies that will advise communities on ways to improve water quality and help them develop plans to make their water cleaner and safer.
Baker Library tower renovations have been completed. The $4-million project refurbished the tower and its spire and replaced the copper roofing. Contributions are still coming in to pay for the replacement of the old 1938 Moosilauke Lodge. We hope it will be finished in time for the traditional DOC gathering of the class of 2021. Dartmouth aims to increase faculty salaries to bring them in line with its Ivy League counterparts. Currently Dartmouth pays a full professor an average of $177,000 a year in salary and benefits. This is roughly $15,000 less than the Ivy League average. A dorm on East Wheelock Street had to be evacuated after a fire on the roof caused by students forgetting about a lit hibachi they had used earlier. The damage was severe enough to make the building uninhabitable for a term.
Dartmouth has named Mary Lou Aleskie as the new director of the Hopkins Center, effective this spring. The Hop has a $7.8-million operating budget and presents more than 500 programs a year. For the last 11 years Mary Lou has run the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut. The 79th Dartmouth student to become a Rhodes scholar is Sarah Waltcher ’16. She is one of 32 students, chosen worldwide, who will study at Oxford University next fall.
Cornell’s new president will be Martha Pollack ’76, who is currently provost at the University of Michigan. Did you realize that the lead-off pitcher for the victorious Cubs in the World Series was a Dartmouth grad—Kyle Hendricks ’12? He had the lowest ERA in the Major League this year.
We are sorry to report the deaths of Robert C. Barnum Jr., William T. Doer Jr., Daniel J. Hurley and William T. Wolf. Our condolences to their families.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org
Baker Library tower renovations have been completed. The $4-million project refurbished the tower and its spire and replaced the copper roofing. Contributions are still coming in to pay for the replacement of the old 1938 Moosilauke Lodge. We hope it will be finished in time for the traditional DOC gathering of the class of 2021. Dartmouth aims to increase faculty salaries to bring them in line with its Ivy League counterparts. Currently Dartmouth pays a full professor an average of $177,000 a year in salary and benefits. This is roughly $15,000 less than the Ivy League average. A dorm on East Wheelock Street had to be evacuated after a fire on the roof caused by students forgetting about a lit hibachi they had used earlier. The damage was severe enough to make the building uninhabitable for a term.
Dartmouth has named Mary Lou Aleskie as the new director of the Hopkins Center, effective this spring. The Hop has a $7.8-million operating budget and presents more than 500 programs a year. For the last 11 years Mary Lou has run the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut. The 79th Dartmouth student to become a Rhodes scholar is Sarah Waltcher ’16. She is one of 32 students, chosen worldwide, who will study at Oxford University next fall.
Cornell’s new president will be Martha Pollack ’76, who is currently provost at the University of Michigan. Did you realize that the lead-off pitcher for the victorious Cubs in the World Series was a Dartmouth grad—Kyle Hendricks ’12? He had the lowest ERA in the Major League this year.
We are sorry to report the deaths of Robert C. Barnum Jr., William T. Doer Jr., Daniel J. Hurley and William T. Wolf. Our condolences to their families.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org