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The Claire Garber Goodman Fund has been established to encourage the
anthropological study of past and present peoples and cultures. Three
fundamental aims of such study are: (1) to enable students and faculty to gain
insight into the ideas, philosophies, and worldviews of other cultures, (2) to
understand the adaptations of specific communities and populations to their
natural and cultural environments, and (3) to discover within our species'
biological and cultural variety universal dimensions and themes of human
existence and evolution.
During her lifetime, Claire Garber Goodman, a student and scholar in the
field of anthropology, expressed a wish to make a gift to Dartmouth College
which would encourage and assist anthropological research by both students and
faculty. Lawrence Goodman '47, her husband, has honored her wish and Dartmouth
College by creating the fund which bears her name. Through this fund, and the
research it supports, we seek to further Claire Goodman's hope that knowledge
from cross-cultural inquiry might provide new bases for enhancing prospects for
universal human coexistence.
 Claire Garber Goodman was born in Longview,
Texas on January 17, 1933. As a child, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee
which was her home until she married Lawrence B. Goodman D'47 in 1957.
Mrs. Goodman graduated from the Ten Acre and Dana Hall Schools in Wellesley,
Massachusetts and graduated from Connecticut College in 1954.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodman made their home in Rye, New York and were residents of
that community at the time of Mrs. Goodman's death in April, 1979. Mrs. Goodman
is survived by her three children, Laura R., Hampshire College; Frank G,
Dartmouth '82; and Emily J., Dartmouth '84.
Claire Goodman received her Master's Degree in Anthropology from New York
University in 1978. Her Master's thesis on copper artifacts in the
native-American Mississipian period was published in 1983 by the Center for
American Archeology with the title "Copper Artifacts in Late Eastern Woodlands
Prehistory", edited by Anne-Marie Cantwell, preface by
Lawrence B. Goodman. The book is still in print.
Additional information:
Claire Garber Goodman Research Projects
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