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The Fahey, Goldstein, and McLane families have made gifts to Dartmouth
College to support the highest priorities in the Campaign for the Dartmouth
Experience. In recognition of their commitments, the College will name
residence halls within the new McLaughlin Cluster and
on Tuck
Mall in their honor. In addition, a lead gift from an anonymous donor will
name a commons area in the McLaughlin Cluster in honor of Samson Occom, the
Mohegan who was instrumental in the founding of the College in 1769.
McLaughlin Residential Cluster
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Tuck Mall Residence Halls (Photos by Joseph Mehling '69)
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The McLaughlin Cluster will include Goldstein Hall and the Occom Commons
residence halls and will house approximately 342 students. The cluster includes
lounges, kitchens, and a large commons for lectures, dinners, and other social
and educational activities. Other halls within the cluster were named for the
Berry, Bildner, and Byrne families in May 2005, and the Rauner and Thomas
families in March 2006.
The Tuck Mall Residence Hall will bear the names Fahey and McLane and will
house 162 students in both singles and two-room doubles. The East Residence
parallels Tuck Mall, following the rhythm of the existing buildings, while the
West Residence angles slightly to the north. A southwest-facing commons
connects the East and West Residences, offering sweeping views of Tuck Mall,
and contains the primary social spaces serving the cluster: a commons room,
living room, and lounges, as well as kitchens on each floor.
All residences feature brick exteriors, white trim, and copper roofs,
echoing Dartmouth's traditional Georgian architecture within a contemporary
design. Environmentally friendly and energy efficient, the halls follow
guidelines from Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED), administered by the United States Green
Building Council. Construction and landscaping techniques will reduce indoor
water use by 20 percent; exterior irrigation by 50 percent; and overall energy
use by 40 percent. In addition, renewable and recyclable materials were used in
construction.
"Dartmouth is known for creating a strong sense of community,"
says President James Wright.
"The quality of the residential experience here is a key factor. We're
grateful to these generous families for their vision of what Dartmouth can and
should be-and for their philanthropy, which over the years has supported
programs and initiatives across the Dartmouth experience. The College, and
especially the generations of students who will live in these facilities, thank
these donors for assuring the ongoing strength of residential life and learning
on our campus."
Helen and Peter Fahey '68, Th'69 (B.E.)
and '70 (M.E.) are residents of Port Washington, N.Y., and Hanover, N.H. All
four of their children are Dartmouth graduates—Kim Fahey Brown, M.D. '92; Peter
Jr. '94; Michael, M.D. '97; and Katie '06—as are two of Peter's brothers—Steve
'70, DMS'72; and Tim '74. Fahey is a retired limited partner of Goldman Sachs,
with whom he has been associated since 1975. A Dartmouth trustee from 1994 to
2004, Fahey is currently a cochair of the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience
and an overseer of the Thayer School. He has been a member of the executive
committee of the Thayer School and of the major gifts committee of the
College's Will to Excel Campaign; an executive committee member of the Class of
1968; cochair of his 20th, chair of his 30th, and cochair of his 35th Reunion
Giving Campaigns; and chair of the Dartmouth College Fund.
Dorothy and Jerome Goldstein '54 and their
daughter, Bettina Decker '92, live in New York. Jerry is managing director,
emeritus of Bear Stearns Companies, Inc., where he began work in 1958. At
Dartmouth, he was a Rufus Choate scholar, an honor reserved for students in the
top 5 percent of their class, and graduated with highest distinction as a
government major. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. His Dartmouth
alumni activities include service as class president, cochair of the Parents Fund, and board member of the
Rassias Foundation. He is a
recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award, the Class of 1954 Award, and the James
B. Reynolds Award, presented in recognition of his extraordinary service to
Dartmouth in the 1984 Alumni Fund Campaign. In 1978 he endowed the Dartmouth
Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for
Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.
Linda and P. Andrews (Andy) McLane '69,
Tu'73 are residents of Weston, Mass. The residence halls on Tuck Mall that bear
the McLane name honor Andy's father, Peter McLane '37, and all McLane family
alumni of Dartmouth. The current McLane Hall in the River Cluster will be
renamed. Originally named in honor of John Roy McLane, Andy McLane's
great-uncle, who was a member of the Class of 1907 and a trustee of the College
from 1926 to 1956, the residence will now be called Judge Hall in recognition
of McLane's career as a jurist and his nickname, Judge.
Andy McLane is senior managing director in the Boston office of TA
Associates, a private equity investment firm. At Dartmouth, he and his wife
Linda are members of the President's Leadership Council, and McLane has been a
member of the Trustee Investment Committee since 2000. He served a term on the
Alumni Council
and was cochair of his class's 25th, 30th, and 35th reunion giving committees.
The McLanes' philanthropy has touched many areas of Dartmouth life. They have
endowed McLane Family Scholarships for an undergraduate and a Tuck School
student and the McLane Family Fellowship for faculty within the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences. Three decades after serving on the ski patrol as an
undergraduate, McLane spearheaded construction of the Dartmouth Skiway's McLane Family Lodge with a
$1.5 million gift given in honor of all McLane family members who were
Dartmouth skiers.
Samson Occom (1723-1792), a Mohegan born in Norwich, Conn.,
was the first Native American pupil of Eleazar Wheelock, then a prominent
preacher. In 1749 Occom took a job as a schoolteacher to the Montauk tribe of
Long Island, and later married a member of the tribe, Mary Fowler. Occom was
ordained a minister in 1759 and in 1766 began a two-year fund-raising mission
to England on behalf of Wheelock's Indian Charity School. He preached more than
300 sermons and raised £12,000 for the school that, in 1769, became Dartmouth
College.
David T. McLaughlin '54, Tu'55, for whom the complex is
named, was Dartmouth's 14th president, from
1981 to 1987, having previously chaired the College's Board of Trustees during
his business career. He served in executive capacities for a range of nonprofit
and corporate organizations including Toro, the American Red Cross, and The
Aspen Institute.
The commitments of these donors address a major priority in the $1.3 billion
Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest fund-raising effort in
Dartmouth history.
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