Class Note 1943

Congratulations to Interim President Carol L. Folt, named chancellor of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, effective July 1. She has been Dartmouth’s first woman interim president, and will become UNC’s first woman chancellor.


President-elect Philip Hanlon ’77 will assume the presidency on June 10. He is arriving right after Commencement, earlier than originally planned, so he will be on campus during reunions and will have a chance to meet and greet returning alums.


We have received an extremely nice letter from Daniel Kim ’14, a neuroscience major and the recipient of aid from the 1943 scholarship fund. Kim says, “I want to thank you for providing me with the opportunity to learn at this world-class institution.…There is no place like Dartmouth, so thank you for allowing me to call it home.”


This year 2,252 young men and women were accepted for the class of 2017 from a pool of 22,416 applicants. This figure includes 464 early admissions. All 50 states are represented; 40 percent are class valedictorians; 95 percent rank in the top 10 percent of their class; the mean SAT scores are 734 critical reading and 741 in math and writing; 9 percent are international students; 11 percent are the first in their families to go to college; 9 percent are legacies or recruited athletes; 48 percent are students of color; and 68 percent qualified for financial aid, with the average scholarship about $40,000.


Kudos to Dartmouth for its Orozco murals being named a national historic landmark—the highest distinction a site can receive from the secretary of the interior—and also to Jewish studies professor Susannah Herschel and creative writing professor Cleopatra Mathis, who have received Guggenheim fellowships—two of the 175 grants given to North Americans.


In April of this year Dartmouth celebrated its 40th year of coeducation. Has the controversy finally died?


Mark the dates—September 27 to 29. Our 70th reunion! Lots more details in the next issue. One hundred twenty-two of us are still alive (658 of us matriculated in September 1939). Make the big effort! Come to Hanover next fall.


Regretfully I must report the deaths of our classmates Millard P. Goodfellow and Allan M. Hirschberg. Our condolences to their families.


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