Once again,how Dartmouth has changed through the decades!

First, Dartmouth is now clearly a “university” and no longer a “college,” no matter what the administration, faculty, and students might want to call it. There are three greatly expanded graduate schools and a relatively new graduate school that never existed until decades after 1961. How would deceased classmates Hank Gerfen, Ron Heinemann, and Al Orschel and other departed classmates have viewed this growth since they last saw the school?

Second, the Hopkins Center arose out of the ground and has kept on rising, expanding, and reinventing itself. How would deceased classmates Len DiSavino, Carter Frierson, and Gil Low and other departed classmates have appreciated the ongoing development of this now major New England arts center?

Third, today Dartmouth has become a great deal more amenable and welcoming toward minorities, both racial and religious, at all levels: students, faculty, administration and including professional education and training in diversity, equity, and inclusion. How would deceased classmates Charley Francis Jr., Ellis Alden, Neil Davis, Dick Sandreuter, and Frank Budetti and other departed classmates feel about these changes?

Fourth, the apparently successful attempt (subject to legal challenge) to unionize the men’s basketball team is perhaps Dartmouth’s most ridiculous change, at least to College alumni and possibly other groups. What would deceased classmates George Manning, Bob Hoagland, Irwin “Red” Facher, Charley Brown, Terry O’Neil, Bob Naegele Jr., and Jack Kinderdine and other departed classmates have thought about the aforementioned?

Some future day, the rest of us will also be upstairs and looking down on the Dartmouth Green. What will we see? How will we feel about the various Dartmouth changes and issues of tomorrow?

—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; (516) 446-3977; richwind13@gmail.com