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Valedictorian enjoys conversation

By Steve Hoffman | June 13, 1993

Although academic success has made Ally Jeddy '93 this year's valedictorian, Jeddy said he will best remember his time at Dartmouth for his intellectual pursuits outside of the classroom. Jeddy is a double economics and engineering major from Pakistan who arrived in the United States for the first time at the beginning of his freshman year. A reserved but extremely articulate and personable individual, Jeddy received 10 academic citations from seven departments including economics, computer science, French and philosophy. Jeddy recently completed a paper on trade economics under the guidance of Professor Carsten Kowalczyk, for whom Jeddy worked as a research assistant for three years. Jeddy wrote about "what governments must do to prevent being 'leapfrogged,'" a situation that occurs when the world's economic leader is overtaken by another country. Kowalczyk said the paper "deserves publication in a professional journal" and Jeddy received a letter of praise from Ronald Jones, one of the world's foremost trade economists. A Phi Beta Kappa and Rufus Choate Scholar, Jeddy also won the Francis L.

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20th year of female graduates

By Brad Parks | June 13, 1993

Twenty years ago, Dartmouth graduated the first women in its 203-year history. The College enrolled 250 first-year women and 130 female transfer students in the fall of 1972, but it was a group of 34 senior women who became the first to receive diplomas from Dartmouth College. They were pioneers in the tradition of Eleazer Wheelock.

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Three alums discuss Dartmouth

By David Hemmer | June 13, 1993

Members of the Classes of 1943 and 1968 return to campus this weekend for their 50-year and 25-year reunions. Both classes graduated while the United States was at war, World War II for the '43s and Vietnam for the '68s. What follows are profiles of three alumni whose lives were shaped by their Dartmouth experience. George Munroe '43 George Munroe '43 fought in World War II, played professional basketball, and chaired Dartmouth's Board of Trustees. At Dartmouth, Munroe served as treasurer of Palaeopitus, the senior honor society that advises the College President. As a basketball star, Munroe led the Ivy League in scoring his junior year.

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Broadcast journalist to give keynote address

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 13, 1993

Broadcast journalist and television veteran Bill Moyers will speak to the Class of 1993 today at graduation. Moyers, 59, has been involved with journalism for more than four decades, donning many hats in the process. From his early days as a 15-year-old reporter for the Marshall News Messenger in Texas to his post as chief correspondent for CBS from 1976 to 1978, Moyers has analyzed and reported on America and the world with his soft Texas twang. As head of his New York City production company, Public Affairs Television, Moyers has broadcast more than 125 programs such as a companion series to his book "Healing and the Mind" and "Moyers: 20 Years of Listening to America," a 1991 documentary celebration of his two decades of reporting. Moyers has won most major broadcast journalism awards, including 10 Emmys awards.

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Painting seniors by numbers

By Paul Hung | June 13, 1993

As you spend the last minutes of your life as a College undergraduate and wait for your name to be read, do you have the feeling that you don't really know most of your classmates?

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Construction sites everywhere

By Laurel Smith | June 13, 1993

With the steam tunnel project coming to a close on North College Street, the Class of '93 will have a commencement ceremony less marred by the presence of construction noise and heavy machinery than last year's senior class. However, the cranes, steel beams, and mounds of dirt at the sites of Collis Student Center and the old mental health building of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center serve as continuing reminders of a year full of campus construction and renovations. At one point this spring there were four construction sites visible from the green. Construction on the new Collis Student Center at the corner of Main and Wheelock Streets will continue until early next winter, Gordon DeWitt, director of Facilities Planning, said.

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Cross country for a cure

By Brad Parks | June 13, 1993

Tracey Pettengill '93 will bike across country this summer to raise money for the American Cancer Society in memory of her mother, who died of cancer in 1987. Pettengill will begin her journey by dipping her rear wheel into the Pacific Ocean.

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Fulbright scholar to study in London

By Jordy Urstadt | June 13, 1993

Darin Raiken, winner of a Fulbright Scholarship this spring, attributes his academic success to hard work. An economics major, Raiken maintained a 3.92 grade point average through the end of Winter term. "I don't think I'm naturally smart; I just put in long hours," Raiken said. "I get excited over [the work] I'm doing.

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Brian Hayes '90 receives posthumous degree

By Jennifer Sack | June 13, 1993

Brian Hayes '90, who died of cancer last August only six credits short of graduating, will receive a posthumous degree at this year's Commencement. According to Assistant Dean of Students Barbara Strohbehn, Hayes' degree will be the fourth awarded since 1965 to an undergraduate who died before completing the required curriculum, but the first awarded under official guidelines. Discussion surrounding the decision to give Hayes a degree prompted the Dean's office to develop a formal set of criteria to systematically determine who should be awarded such a distinction.

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Commencement rich in tradition and weirdness

By Justin Steinman | June 13, 1993

Throughout the years, Dartmouth's Commencement has been graced by the likes of United States Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and literary legends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. It has also been attended by drunkards, auctioneers, gamblers and a Native American standing on the branch of a pine tree. Somewhere in there, the College managed to fit in a few graduates, an occasional faculty member or two and a couple of College Presidents. Like every other Dartmouth tradition, Commencement has evolved throughout its 223-year existence and certainly had more than its fair share of strange occurrences. The beginning There were only four graduates at the College's first Commencement in 1771, and these students only spent one year at Dartmouth having received the first three years of their undergraduate education at Yale. The ceremony, which included orations in Latin and English and began and ended with a prayer, occurred on Wednesday, August 28, 1771 in the location where Reed Hall now stands, according to a Commencement history written by the late College Professor Francis Lane Childs '06. These four young men were honored by College founder Eleazar Wheelock and New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth, who made the journey from Portsmouth to Hanover accompanied by 60 guests. To celebrate the first graduating class, Wheelock planned a large banquet and provided rum for his guests.

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Internet gains students global access

By Justin Steinman | June 1, 1993

Through Dartmouth's computer network, students can tap into computer systems all around the world, talk to their friends at other colleges from their computers, and search libraries across the country for research materials. The Internet, an interconnected computer network that will form the basis for the "information superhighway" that the Clinton administration espouses, allows students to connect to computers around the world from the comfort of their dormitory room.

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