To the Editor:
I write to you to offer a few corrections to your article about the Hinman and Baker family histories and their links to Dartmouth ["Students' family histories provide links to College landmarks," May 27, The Dartmouth].
Dartmouth's mailboxes and Rockefeller Center's Hinman Forum were not named in honor of John Hinman '08 who was the great-great uncle of Kristin Hinman '98.
The Hinman Forum was named in honor of George Hinman, a Binghamton, N.Y. attorney who was an advisor to Nelson Rockefeller. George Hinman helped to raise funds for building the Rockefeller Center. He was not a Darmouth alum nor was he related to John Hinman '08 and Kristin Hinman '98.
The Hinman boxes were named in honor of Herbert D. Hinman '07 and funded by Lloyd Noland '39 in appreciation for that Hinman guiding him to Dartmouth. Herbert Hinman '07 was a distant cousin of John Hinman.
