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Dear Friends:
As members of the Dartmouth community, we are confronted with two realities: a desire to help those in need, and a realization that even our finest efforts will be unable to truly relieve the suffering of those who have incurred personal loss as a result of the tsunamis that have devastated the region around the Indian Ocean. However, despite our inability to bring full remedy to this region, we can make a difference through our contributions and our expressions of genuine care and concern.
Thursday’s Community Gathering is merely a commencement of the tasks before us as a body of those resolved to bring our part of the relief effort to reality. We act because it is the right and proper thing to do; we care because it is an essential part of our humanity.
In order to act in a meaningful way, we are encouraging people to contribute to the relief efforts. President Wright, in his letter initiating Dartmouth’s response, has indicated the website through which you may go to make contributions. The Tucker Foundation is coordinating the efforts of students who wish to find some tangible means of expressing concerns. There will be contribution boxes placed across campus where you may give, and you may go to the Collis Info Desk to use your DA$H card to assist financially.
We have also set up a special Blitz account where we request you direct your questions: Tsunami Relief@Dartmouth.edu.
Concern is wonderful, but action gives that concern life. We are committed to doing what we can to be good neighbors in the global community. Thank you for joining with us to make it happen.
In The Spirit of Service,
Dr. Stuart C. Lord
Virginia Rice Kelsey '61S Dean of the Tucker Foundation
Associate Provost
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