Phil Bush '69 alerts us to a nice article in The Dartmouth detailing much of the history of Occom Pond.
"President Sian Leah Beilock today announced the launch of Dartmouth Dialogues, a wide-ranging series of initiatives that will showcase Dartmouth’s commitment to programming across the institution that facilitates conversations and skills bridging political and personal divides."
Here is a link to both the video of her 30 minute address (in front of Baker) and a transcript of her remarks.
Do you know an outstanding alumni leader?
How many classmates are aware of the lectures by Dartmouth professors available online?
https://next.dartmouth.edu/
Jake Crouthamel passed away this past eweek at the age of 84. Here is an article about him from Dartmouth Sports.
Teaser paragraph:
Dartmouth’s librarian in 1969, Edward Connery Latham, wanted to compile a concordance of all of the poetry written by Robert Frost to accompany the complete collection of Frost’s poetry which Latham had just published (SBN: 03-072535-6). A concordance is an alphabetical list of all the individual words used by Frost in ALL of his poetry.
The National Review understands that Dartmouth will never rename itself as a University. Here's a short column about the historical context by Fred Schwartz, a National Review editor and contributor.
(Edited to remove leading 'even' which signaled the webmaster's bias.)
In an idle moment (I have fewer of them than I want) I came across this link. Details: