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Senior standouts leave campus a different place

By Maggie Fritz | June 12, 1994

Trevor Burgess Trevor Burgess said he is looking forward to the time when his "job won't have to be being a professional homosexual." Unlike most seniors who are reluctant to leave the comfort of college life, Burgess, the co-chair of the College's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual organization, is ready to move on to his position in a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. Coming into his senior year, Burgess said he wanted to change campus perception of DaGLO as a politically-oriented organization by having the group take on a more moderate, supportive role. The change fit well with Burgess' character. "I'm not a very radical person.

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Seniors pledge gifts

By Jack Vaitayanonta | June 12, 1994

More than half of this year's graduating class pledged money to the Senior Gifts Program, for a total of $95,326. The Program began in 1980 as a way to introduce recent graduates to the Alumni Fund, which raises money annually from alumni, Mitch Jacobs '94, an Alumni Fund intern said. Each year's senior gift is pooled with other alumni classes' contributions to the Alumni Fund, which pays close to 20 percent of the College's operating costs, including professors' salaries, facilities maintenance and financial aid. Although, fewer people, about 55 percent of the class, donated this year than in past years, individual donors gave more on the average. The Class of 1993 raised $93,684.

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Class Day ceremony dates from 1854

By Maggie Fritz | June 12, 1994

The Class of 1994 revived an old tradition yesterday when they symbolically broke their ties with the College by placing pieces of a long cedar garland on the stump of the Lone Pine. Adapting a tradition from the College's very first Class Day ceremony in 1854, seniors sat inside a long cedar garland placed around the Bema and listened to speeches by their classmates, administrators and faculty. At the conclusion of the ceremony, each senior broke off a piece of garland and placed it on top of the Lone Pine stump, which is located on a hillock between the Bema and Bartlett Tower. Last year graduating seniors drank a toast in clay mugs and then ceremoniously smashed them at the base of the Lone Pine.

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College awards seven honorary degrees

By Siobhan Gorman | June 12, 1994

The College will award a playwright, a historian, an artist, a scientist and three distinguished alumni with honorary degrees at today's 224th Commencement ceremonies. Commencement speaker Labor Secretary Robert Reich '68, John Berry '44, Walter Burke '44, artist Helen Frankenthaler, scientist Jonas Salk, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson and Princeton University History Professor Natalie Zemon Davis will all receive honorary degrees today. Each fall, the College solicits nominations and submits to the Board of Trustees a list of names of people who have worked tirelessly to improve either the world or the College, which selects six or seven people from the list to receive degrees. The Council on Honorary Degrees aims to select recipients that represent a range of interests, Secretary to the Board Cheryl Reynolds said. "One of the things the Council tries to do is achieve a balanced slate," she said. The College succeeded in picking a diverse group of people from many different fields and two members of the Class of 1944, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary this weekend in Hanover. John Berry Berry is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the L.M.

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NFL is next stop for Big Green QB Jay Fiedler

By Amy Henry | June 12, 1994

The awards and records Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler '94 owns are impressive, but beyond those numbers and awards are a passion and commitment -- a trait Fiedler hopes will bring him success after graduation, as an NFL quarterback. Fiedler appears to have been blessed with exceptional talent and an athletic gift, but it is his work ethic, determination and dedication which have been the keys to his success on and off the field. "What people can't understand about Jay is how hard-working he is.

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Valedictorian notches 4.0

By Christopher Kao | June 12, 1994

Valedictorians are normally imagined as people who never leaves the library, but this year's valedictorian Kamala Dansinghani has pursued interests outside classwork, such as tutoring children and volunteering at a hospital. Dansinghani, who will graduate with a biochemistry major and a psychology minor, will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall, where she hopes she will be able to express her love of science and her love of working with people, especially children. At Harvard, she plans to study pediatrics, obstetrics or prenatal care. Of course, besides her extracurricular interests, Dansinghani spent a lot of time concentrating on her studies -- she does after all have a 4.0 average and eight citations for outstanding academic work. She also did research at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center her junior year as a Howard Hughes Intern and a Presidential Scholar. A Phi Beta Kappa, Dansinghani was named a member of USA Today's 20-person all-USA College Academic first team in 1993. Dansinghani's story is especially amazing because in high school and during her early years at Dartmouth, she was battling anorexia. In high school, "I developed the eating disorder and wasn't sure I was even going to make it to college," she said. "My first two years here, I was still struggling with anorexia, which made everything a lot harder emotionally for me,'' she said. With the help of Education Professor Andrew Garrod, Dansinghani wrote a 77-page autobiographical work about her personal experience with anorexia.

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Graduation List

By Dartmouth College | June 12, 1994

The following is the graduation list as of Thursday, June 9. The list contains only the names of students who are in the Class of 1994.

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Generation sex

By Andrew Smith | June 12, 1994

When it comes to writing about the sexual state of affairs at Dartmouth, my mind can barely keep pace with the strokes of the keyboard, but ask me to write some little ditty about how my lifelong ambition is to work for peanuts as a yuppy peon, and I can't write my way out of a latex bag. That's not to say I can't write letters in general.

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Labor Secretary delivers graduation speech

By Christopher Kao | June 12, 1994

"Graduation is a time to tackle the world, to be red hot with ambition, to begin the challenge," Labor Secretary Robert Reich '68, the featured speaker at today's Commencement, told his class in 1968. Speaking on Class Day in June, 1968, a year marked by the explosion of race riots nationwide and the continuing war in Vietnam, he called on his classmates to take action and to not be afraid to step up and make a difference. "The point is that it will take guts to really commence in June of 1968, to be willing to take an alternative course, to be willing to build something when destruction is mounting on all sides,'' he said. Reich returns to Hanover today, having accomplished just that.

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Class of 1944 broken up by WWII

By David Hemmer | June 12, 1994

The "class that never graduated" returns to Hanover this week for its fiftieth reunion. Broken up by the call of World War II, the 1944 class never shared a Commencement ceremony.

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Class of 1994 stats

By Rini Ghosh | June 12, 1994

The Class of 1994, like all classes, will be forever ensconced in the College's books, not only as names and faces, but as numbers and statistics. For instance, in the fall of 1990, 1,064 students enrolled, 596 men and 468 women according to Assistant to the Dean of Upperclass Students Alison Gorman.

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Yaffe overcomes obstacles

By Amanda A. Amann | June 12, 1994

After recovering from a near-fatal accident, Lisa Yaffe '93 can proudly claim the distinguished honor of graduating twice from Dartmouth as an undergraduate. In August of 1991, Yaffe's sophomore summer, she was turning a corner on her bike when she was struck by a truck carrying a house and traveling at 55 miles per hour, she said. "It is ironic to say I was lucky because it is not lucky to get hit by a truck, but there was such a lucky string of circumstances working in my favor," Yaffe said. She was wearing a helmet when she was caught between the bike and the truck's grill, and two trauma physicians happened to be in a car behind the truck and helped sustain Yaffe when she suffered one cardiac arrest at the accident site and another in the ambulance. Yaffe awoke from a coma after five weeks, having incurred brain damage that doctors believed would prevent her from completely regaining her mental and physical faculties, she said. "I think my parents were so strong ... to have to hear such horrible things about their pride and joy," Yaffe said. She spent nearly a year in rehabilitation, regaining her speech and basic motor skills. "My balance is still not as stable as it was, and I have lost the hand-eye coordination required in team sports," said Yaffe, who was a lacrosse recruit.

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Workers put in overtime

By Tim Fitzgibbons | June 12, 1994

It all starts with the polishing of Baker Library's brass numbers. That job, Linda Hathorn said, is the first step in the month-long preparations for the annual Commencement and Reunion events. Hathorn, the director of conferences and events, is in charge of much of the massive preparation that goes into the week. After the speakers are mounted on Baker, a crew of workers, from grounds crew to carpenters to electricians, begins constructing the stands and installing a sound system in front of the library. After Green Key weekend in mid-May, crews from Facilities Operations and Management go to work making the Green look really green -- laying sod, watering and roping off well-worn paths. College crews must set up 8,000 chairs for the graduation spectators and nearly 20 tents to shelter reunion festivities. Crews must prepare a second site in Thompson Arena in case of rain.

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Ceremony takes strange turns over the years

By Siobhan Gorman | June 12, 1994

The College's 224th Commencement ceremony is part of a long tradition of graduation festivities that includes famous speakers, drunkards, jugglers and crazy alumni antics. The ceremony has evolved since the first one in 1771, in which there were four graduates, including Eleazar Wheelock's son, said Director of Public Programs Barbara Whipple. Those students spent only a year at the College after attending Yale University for three years. The August 28th ceremony, located where Reed Hall is now, included orations in Latin and English and began and concluded with a prayer, according to a Commencement history written by College Professor Lane Childs '06. In celebration of the event, John Wentworth, then-governor of New Hampshire, provided rum to be served on the Green with roasted ox, Whipple said.

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Seniors choose off-beat careers

By Colin Grey | June 12, 1994

Seniors must for one year live the everyday nightmare of facing the benign question "What are you doing after graduation?" and having no answer. While some students have known the answer to this question since watching their first L.A.

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Time for reflection

By David Herszenhorn | June 12, 1994

Newspaper stories about graduation ceremonies focus on the events that happen on stage. In The New York Times tomorrow, the story about Dartmouth's 1994 Commencement will report the number of graduating students.

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Scholars will study in Germany

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 12, 1994

Seniors Russell Martin and Marion Shonn will be heading to Germany after graduation on Fulbright scholarships to do research in engineering and biology, respectively. Martin, an engineering major from Birmingham, Ala.

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