The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment at Dartmouth College

Established in 1977through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Montgomery (Dartmouth Class of '25), the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment was created "to provide for the advancement of the academic realm of the College in ways that will significantly add to the quality and character thereof, making possible major new dimensions for, as well as extraordinary enrichments to, the educational experience offered primarily to undergraduate students within the Dartmouth community."

• About the Montgomery Endowment
• Montgomery Fellows Biographies
• Steering Committee
• Information Regarding the Selection of Montgomery Fellows
• Video Highlights

Spotlight

2010 Winter Term

Montgomery Fellow Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, naturalist, and environmental activist.

Montgomery Fellow Lecture: "Writing Our Way Home"
Date: Monday, January 25, 4:30 p.m. (site tba)
Free and open to the public

Montgomery Fellows Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are environmental installation artists, creators of Running Fence, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, The Gates, and other works

Montgomery Fellow Lecture:

"Two Works in Progress:
Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado
The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates"
Date: Monday, February 8, 4:00 p.m., Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
Free and open to the public

2009 Fall Term

Montgomery Fellow: Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann is a Nobel-Prize theoretical chemist, poet, and playwright.

• Stage Reading of Should’ve
  Date: Wednesday, October 7, 7:30 p.m., Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center
  Free and open to the public
• Religion Department Lecture: “Indigo: A Tale of Craft, Religion, History, Science, and Culture:”
  Date: Thursday, October 8, 4:30 p.m., Haldeman 041
  Free and open to the public
• Montgomery Fellow Lecture: “Chemistry’s Essential Tension”
  Date: Tuesday, October 13, 4:30 p.m., Filene Auditorium (Moore Hall)
  Free and open to the public

2009 Summer Term

Montgomery Fellow: Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer is an award-winning American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author.

• Panel discussion on the art and politics of cartooning with cartoonists Jules Feiffer, Edward Koren, Edward Sorel and Jeff Danziger.
  Wednesday, August 12 at 4:00 p.m., Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall.
• Montgomery Fellow Lecture: "Going from There to Here: Cartooning in the Twentieth Century and Beyond"
  Wednesday, July 15 at 4:00 p.m., Filene Auditorium

2009 Spring Term

Montgomery Fellow: Ada Deer

Ada Deer is a Native American advocate and scholar who served as head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1993-1997.

• Montgomery Fellow Lecture: "Seeking Social Justice: Indians, Women and the Politics of Change"
  Tuesday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m., Filene Auditorium

2009 Winter Term

Montgomery Fellow: Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell, the author of nine books of poetry, has been honored as a MacArthur Fellow and the State Poet of Vermont. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.

• Montgomery Fellow Lecture: "A Reading with Galway Kinnell"
  Date: Tuesday, January 20 at 4:30 p.m., Filene Auditorium

Montgomery Fellow: Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars is a Director of Theater, Opera and Film. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Montgomery Fellow Lecture: "New Crowned Hope: The Arts in the Age of Obama"
  Date: Tuesday, February 10 at 4:30 p.m., Moore Theater, Hopkins Center