Dedications Unveil Range of New Buildings

The students who arrived on campus this fall were met with a host of new facilities, including six new residence halls, the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center, and Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Center, connected buildings which will house the mathematics department and the College's interdisciplinary centers. On September 19 a dedication ceremony was held for the residence clusters. President James Wright spoke at the event and Trustee Nancy Kepes Jeton '76 accepted the buildings on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Dean of the College Dan Nelson '76 presided.

MacLean Engineering Sciences Center

Kemeny Hall/Haldeman Center (Photos by Joseph Mehling '69

Upcoming dedication ceremonies are as follows:
The MacLean Engineering Sciences Center, a large addition to Cummings Hall at the Thayer School of Engineering, will provide additional student project design labs with surrounding support facilities, new classrooms and conferences rooms, additional faculty offices, and more laboratory research space. The center is named for Barry MacLean '60, Th'61 and his wife, Mary Ann. On Friday, September 29, the College will celebrate its opening with keynote addresses by Associate Professor of Engineering Tillman Gerngross and Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Charles Hutchison, cofounders of the biotechnology firm GlycoFi, Inc., at 1:30 p.m. in Collis Common Ground. Their remarks will be followed by an on-site dedication ceremony scheduled for 3 p.m., a reception, and tours of the facility.

The autumn's final facilities dedications will take place on Friday, November 3, and Saturday, November 4, when the College celebrates the opening of the Kemeny Hall/Haldeman Center building, located on North Main Street. Kemeny Hall will house the mathematics department and honor former president John Kemeny, who built the department into a national model, coauthored the BASIC computer language, and presided over Dartmouth's transition to coeducation. The dedication ceremony is scheduled for November 3 at 4 p.m. in Novak Café with a reception and tours of Kemeny Hall to follow.

The Haldeman Center will house the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Ethics Institute, thereby enhancing opportunities among the centers for interdisciplinary initiatives. The building will also provide conference space for departments and programs throughout the College. An open house will be held at 11 a.m. on November 4, followed by a dedication ceremony at noon in Haldeman.

By GENEVIEVE HAAS

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