Oral history interview with Walter Burke, 1996 Aug. 9 and 27.

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Oral history interview with Walter Burke, 1996 Aug. 9 and 27.

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Documents Mr. Burke's years as a member of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees, including his chairmanship of the board, as well as the trustees' management of the college endowment and their selection of David McLaughlin to succeed John Kemeny as the president of the college. Discusses moving Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

Sound recordings : 6 sound cassettes (ca. 60 min. each).Transcript : 77 leaves.

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Dartmouth College Oral History Project.

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Kemeny, John G.

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Born, Budapest, Hungary, May 31, 1926. Emigrated to the U.S., 1940; naturalized, 1945. Valedictorian, George Washington High School, N.Y., 1943; BA and PhD in mathematics, Princeton, 1949. Assistant within the U.S. Army, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Project, 1945-1946. Research assistant to Dr. Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1948-49. Fine Instructor and Office of Naval Research Research Fellow in Mathematics, Princeton, 1949-51. Asst. prof. of philosophy, P...

Dartmouth College. Board of Trustees.

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McLaughlin, David T. (David Thomas), 1932-2004

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Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

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CARROLL, JANE LOUISE

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Burke, Walter, 1922-

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Born July 30, 1922, Larchmont, N.Y.; matriculated at Dartmouth, fall 1940; served in the Navy, 1942-1946; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1948. Practiced law for four years, then spent the remainder of his career as the investment adviser to the Sherman Fairchild family and later as president and director of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. Trustee of Dartmouth College, 1976-1986, chairman of the board, 1983-1986. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter Burke, 1996 Aug...