Maya Angelou gives the keynote address for the Tucker Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Celebration. Photo by Laura DeCapua, reprinted with permission of the Valley News.

From start to finish, the Tucker
Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration was a resounding success. Bringing together students, alumni, community members and College faculty and staff, the gathering was designed to shine a spotlight on Foundation’s impressive history while focusing on its exciting present and future.

Collis Common Ground reached full capacity as constituencies from various parts of the campus and the community came out to hear Marc Belton '81, Senior Vice President of General Mills and President, Big G Division, speak on leadership and character. Belton addressed the opportunities and challenges facing leaders in the 21st Century.The Leadership and Character Luncheon was the first official function of the anniversary weekend,and set the stage for many of the coming events.

Author, poet and performer Maya Angelou was the keynote speaker for this jam packed weekend of events. Heard by well over 1,000 people in both Spaulding Auditorium and two overflow locations, her presentation included poetry and song, and was aptly summed up by one alumnus as “inspirational and enchanting.”

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A Word from the Dean
Building Cross Cultural Community
Dean Stuart C. Lord

“Siuna loves you and will not forget you.We pray you will not forget us.For when you return, we will be waiting with open arms and eager hearts.”
— Alejandra Ramirez, coordinator of the Siuna Women and Children’s Health Clinic

N ine months ago I wrote a letter regarding a service project I undertook in Bangladesh. In that letter, I pledged my “passion to help create opportunities for collaboration among undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in a way that will be unique to Dartmouth.”

Frederpca Ghesquiere '04 and Isabel Casariego '04 during the December Cross Cultural Education and Service Project in Nicaragua

In December of 2001,Dartmouth took a major step toward achieving this goal with the completion of its first Cros s Cultural Education and Service Project in Siuna, Nicaragua. Through this project, Dartmouth undergraduates, Dartmouth Medical students,Thayer Engineering graduate students, faculty members and community professionals combined to form a medical team and a construction team. Both teams partnered with local University of the Autonomous Region of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN) students
and citizens of Siuna to build new walls for a women and children's health clinic and to offer clinical and public health assistance to the area’s surrounding residents.

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