Miscellany and History

ANNOUNCEMENT

BAKER LIBRARY TOWER BELLS

*** NEW ***
WISH YOU COULD HEAR THE BAKER BELLS AGAIN?
Now you can. Just click on the link below.

Baker Bells

Per Bob Herrick

Wilcomb Edward Washburn '48 Memorial

The Wall of Honor in the new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian will be the location of a plaque honoring "Wid" for his historical work in anthropology and archeology as Director of the American Studies Program until shortly before his death in 1997. Wid was a defender of the Indian Symbol at Dartmouth. He had offered to bring a group of Indian Chiefs to Hanover to attest to the value to Early Americans at Dartmouth should the Indian identity be retained. This idea was rejected by the administration then headed by President Kemeny which greatly disappointed Wid.
Bud Munson had contacted a group of classmates who raised the funds necessary for this honor to be paid to Wid for his valiant efforts and contribution to society. 

DARTMOUTH SKIWAY LODGE

(now completed) open for the 2000-2001 season
During the 2000 Winter Mini we were pleased to encounter a model of the proposed McLane Family Lodge to replace existing Brundage Lodge and expand it's current size from 3,800 to 16,000 square feet. Amenities will include a retail shop, more seating, improved food service and expanded rental space. Three quarters of the expected cost of $4 million has been subscribed so contributions are welcome. Use of the facilities has grown to over 40,000 skiers each year. A link on our Home Page will direct those interested to a detailed website on the facility.

NEWS NOTES from Class Officers weekend
The Alumni Magazine will now be published (in new format) 6 instead of 9 times per year.
Submitted entries are edited for grammar and style but alumni names are not checked for accuracy.
It was felt that we might do a class demographics study regarding possible added mini-reunions.
The College is anxious to stimulate intraclass communication via e-mail and the Vox Alumni Network (VAN).
Contact can be made with this system at http://www.Alum.Dartmouth.ORG
With completion of the Berry Library, Dartmouth's computer center (electronic information) is now co-located with the traditional print media resources in the Baker complex providing a huge bank of research resources at one location.
Demonstration of the uses of electronic presentations such as Powerpoint proved the value of computer oriented teaching.
Only 21% of our 55,000 alumni voted in the 2002 Trustee election which is a concern. Some talk has taken place regarding the possibility of Trustee Meetings being available on the Internet. We have elections coming up each year for the next five years so it would be well to try to stimulate more participation.

************* Interestingly, the recent vote on a proposed Constitution for the Alumni Association drew more than twice the number of participants with 39% of our current 66,000 members. (the proposal was not accepted)

STUDENT LIFE INITIATIVE

"Bye Bye SLI"

This headline appeared in the March-April DAM

The best way for us to transmit the message is this from the DAM article.

"The Student Life Initiative (an invention of the administration) was a sweeping effort to
fundamentally change how students spend time when they aren't in class - including, most
controversally, time spent drinking beer in basements.
Five years after SLI launched with a bang, however, it appears to have ended with something akin
to a sigh (of relief).
Dean of the College Jim Larimore told two Alumni groups that because SLI had successfully met
most of its goals, it was no longer a focus. (He said) We have moved the system in a very positive
direction."

In the opinion of your editor any positive results of the Student Life Initiative came from the
student's reaction which was, according to the DAM "with almost anti war intensity" when
they "marched on President Wright's house and"the National press came to Hanover to see
what all the fuss was about".

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Page updated October 30, 2008


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