New Fellowship Honors First Tucker Foundation Dean

The Reverend Dr. Fred Berthold Jr. '44, professor of religion emeritus and the first dean of the Tucker Foundation, has been honored by the creation of a fellowship in his name, to be awarded by the Foundation. The Berthold Fellowship provides for a graduate student at the College to work for the Tucker Foundation for a year, creating opportunities for the exploration of the relationship between faith and service.

The Tucker Foundation coordinates campus religious groups and is the umbrella for community service that involves approximately 60 percent of the student body. "When [Dartmouth President] John Sloan Dickey in 1951 announced there would be a Tucker Foundation, he said that a liberal education that is any good must have equal emphasis on competence and conscience," Berthold says. "We need conscience in order to see how things ought to be and how we ought to be." The first Berthold Fellow will be David Nyweide, a graduate student in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences Program.

Starting in September, Nyweide will work up to 10 hours a week at Tucker and in the United Campus Ministry. He hopes to organize speakers and discussion groups that "advance the dialogue on the relationship between faith and service in the undergraduate volunteer work supported by the Tucker Foundation." The fellowship was started with a gift from the Class of 1944. Additional donations are being sought to extend and expand the fellowship, says Richard R. Crocker, college chaplain and the foundation's acting dean.

Berthold began working at Dartmouth in 1949 as an instructor in philosophy and later joined the Department of Religion, becoming a full professor in 1956. From 1957 to 1962, he served as the foundation's first dean. In 1974, he was named the Preston Kelsey Professor of Religion. Berthold holds a Master of Divinity from the Chicago Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Chicago, and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

By REBECCA BAILEY

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