Dickey, John Sloan, 1907-1991

Born, Lock Haven, Penn., Nov. 4, 1907. Graduate, Dartmouth College, 1929, Harvard Law School, 1932. Worked for the Mass. Dept. of Corrections and was in private legal practice in Boston from 1932 to 1940. For the next five years served the U.S. Department of State variously as special assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre, special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, special assistant to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson A. Rockefeller, chief, Division of World Trade Intelligence, director of the Office of Public Affairs, and public liaison officer, U.S. Delegation to the San Francisco Conference on International Organization. On the faculty of the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C. at its inception, 1944-45. In 1945, he began his 25-year presidency of Dartmouth College. Also served on President Truman's 1947 Committee on Civil Rights, the United Nations Collective Measures Committee in 1951, and as consultant to Secretary of State Acheson on disarmament. After stepping down as president, taught Canadian-American relations as Dartmouth's Bicentennial Professor of Public Affairs. Died, Hanover, N.H., Feb. 9, 1991.

The twelfth president of Dartmouth College, John Sloan Dickey was born in Lock Haven, Penn. in 1907. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1929. In 1932 he received his LL.B from Harvard Law School. He served as president of Dartmouth from 1945 to 1970.