HANOVER, N.H. — At its February meeting, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees voted to name the latest building in a grouping of residence halls known as the East Wheelock Cluster in honor of Trustee Emeritus Norman (Sandy) E. McCulloch, Jr., a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1950.
McCulloch Hall will complete the cluster project, begun a decade ago. The new building will house approximately 80 students and provide enhanced social and programming space. Scheduled to open in the Fall of 2000, McCulloch Hall is being designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell.
Sandy has honored Dartmouth so much through the years, said President James Wright. As Chair of the Board, Sandy provided pivotal leadership and gave immeasurably of his time and talents. It is with great pleasure that we are able to honor him by giving his name to a building that will be home to generations of Dartmouth students.
The East Wheelock Cluster was dedicated in 1987 and currently consists of four residence halls named in honor of former Trustees F. William Andres Lloyd D. Brace, William H. Morton and Charles J. Zimmerman. With the completion of McCulloch Hall, the East Wheelock Cluster will house a total of 314 students, as well as faculty, staff and graduate student advisors. The design and concept for this new type of residential option at Dartmouth was the result of an extensive planning project which culminated in the final report of the Committee on the First-Year Experience in 1995. Students living in cluster residence halls are part of a community of scholars who discover common intellectual interests and are able to extend those interests far beyond the classroom.
A native of Barrington, Rhode Island, McCulloch graduated from Dartmouth cum laude with highest distinction in his major (French). He then joined Microfibres, Inc., a company founded by his father in 1926, and has since served as a director of numerous organizations including Fleet National Bank, Narragansett Capital Corporation, Mt. Attitash Lift Corporation and Edgehill-Newport, Inc., an alcohol rehabilitation center. He was a member of the Young Presidents; Organization (YPO) from 1963 to 1977.
Currently McCulloch is Chairman of The Rhode Island Foundation, one of the nations largest community foundations with assets in excess of $375 million.
His service to Dartmouth has been extensive, as a member and then President of the Alumni Council, as Chair of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund and as National Chair of the five-year Campaign for Dartmouth from 1977 to 1982. A member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees for 13 years, he served as its Chair from 1986 to 1988.
McCulloch has been active in founding the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth and currently serves as Chair of its Board of Visitors. In 1998, he and his wife Dorothy (Dotty) endowed the James O. Freedman Presidential Professorship at Dartmouth. The McCullochs have also endowed a chair and founded a new Program for International Studies at Mount Holyoke College (Dotty McCulloch's alma mater); and in 1992 they established the McAdams Charitable Foundation, a family foundation with a focus on educational issues. In 1983, Sandy McCulloch received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Johnson Wales University.
