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June 24, 2026
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Seniors face tightening job market

By Craig Elbert | June 10, 2001

As some members of the Class of 2001 prepare to enter the workforce, others are already feeling the pressures of the real world and the current economic downturn in the form of job offer retractions. If this year's graduating class is similar to last year's, almost three-fourths of the seniors anticipate employment as their principle activity next fall, while most of the remainder are heading to graduate school or taking a year off. At this time last year, 60 percent of those who said they planned on working had already accepted job offers. With the recent failure of many technology-based firms and continued uncertainty in the stock market, however, the number of employed graduates come this year's Commencement may decrease. Although a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers reported that employers planned to hire 18.8 percent more students in the upcoming year than in the past year, almost half of the companies surveyed have lowered their hiring expectations since August.

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Grad schools bestow degrees

By Charles Gardner | June 10, 2001

Students from the College's three graduate schools -- the Thayer School of Engineering, Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth Medical School -- will be reaping the rewards of their many years of hard work today, as they sit alongside the graduating seniors and end their time at Dartmouth as students. Although the Commencement ceremonies provide an opportunity for all graduating students at the College to come together and honor their achievements, programming yesterday largely focused on the individual schools and their students. Each of the graduate schools celebrated the achievements of its departing students with its own unique event: students at the medical school had their "Class Day," while both Tuck and Thayer held "Investiture Ceremonies" to mark the occasion. "These are school-specific ceremonies," Director of Public Programs Ann Malenka explained.

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Paint by numbers: the stats of the '01s

By Kelly Cameron | June 10, 2001

Today's graduates are probably the last to remember when the Apple Macintosh Performa 6400/180 computer, priced at $1,646, was the preferred computer package for incoming freshmen. About 90 percent of the 1,050 to 1,075 bachelor's degrees to be handed out today will go to members of the Class of 2001, whose Performas long ago became public BlitzMail terminals. The most popular majors for the class were biology, economics, English, government and history, according to Assistant Registrar Nancy Broadhead. Graduates are citizens of almost 20 different countries, with the largest groups coming from Canada and India.

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Commencement and Reunion 2001 Issue

By Ithan Peltan | June 10, 2001

Early morning in Hanover is a special time, regardless of the season. In a community of late-risers, the dawn is greeted most often only by an all-encompassing aura of peace. For the last week, though, when the sun's first rays fell upon the Hanover Plain, there has been a certain sense of expectancy.

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Class of 1951 recalls very different Dartmouth

By Mike A. Hamilton | June 10, 2001

As members of the Class of 1951 return to Hanover for their 50th reunion, most will be reminded of the sweeping changes that have transformed the College since their days as undergraduates just after World War II -- among them, coeducation, growth of the student body and increases in the number of faculty, a more diverse applicant pool and many new buildings, to name just a few. According to alumni class president Henry Nachman '51, Dartmouth was "quite a different school back then," noting that the entire social dynamic changed when females were admitted in 1972. Nachman recalls the weekend road trips that many current students have probably heard about.

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Five years out, grads value friends, activities

By Tara Kyle | June 10, 2001

For many Dartmouth alumni, memories of their years in New Hampshire remain unfaded. But for members of the Class of 1996, scheduled to hold their first class reunions June 15-17, recollections of their alma mater are particularly vivid. With the perspective provided by five years away from Hanover, the Green and Hop fries, all alumni who spoke with The Dartmouth looked back on their time at the College fondly. "Everyone says how much fun you have in college, and you definitely miss it.

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Four seniors who found their niche at Dartmouth

By Alice Gomstyn | June 10, 2001

Today, over 1,000 young men and women will have one thing in common: long black robes. No matter their names, their majors, their interests, their backgrounds, their dreams and their passions, each will don traditional commencement attire. If only for a day, almost every member of the Class of 2001 will match their peers in more than just geographic location. But look beyond the venerable robes and you will find that members of the graduating Class of 2001 deserve recognition for more than just successfully completing their Dartmouth education.

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Sr. week, Class Day divert '01s

By David Klein | June 10, 2001

Through an increased organizational effort from the 2001 Class Council, graduates were treated to a variety of events over the past week and participated in some traditional activities that date back almost to the College's founding. Senior Week Committee co-Chairs Gabriela Garcia '01 and Jamison Sadlon '01 began organizing a number of the Senior Week activities during Winter term.

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Seniors pledge gifts to scholarship fund

By Richard Lazarus | June 10, 2001

"Hello, this is so-and-so calling for so-and-so. Is she in?" Graduating seniors probably won't be hearing Green Corps callers from the Blunt Alumni Center soliciting donations for the Dartmouth College Fund for another five years, but the drive for donations from the Class of 2001 has already begun with this year's Senior Gift program. Each year, seniors are asked to pledge money to be donated over the next several years.

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Floods, Great Depression tested '31s

By Ryan Samuels | June 10, 2001

A little older and a lot wiser, the Class of 1931 will return this weekend to enjoy their 70th reunion and help the '01s celebrate their graduation. Asked what notable characteristics marked his class, William Walsh '31 \responded, "I suppose those of us who are left are unique because we are still alive." In their younger days, however, then-Director of Admissions Gordon Bill called them the smartest Dartmouth class ever. "For many months I have felt that the material from which the Class of 1931 was chosen was much superior scholastically to that of any previous year," he wrote in The Dartmouth after their freshman fall.

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'76 women and men reunite

By Alison Schmauch | June 10, 2001

On a September morning in 1972, College President John Kemeny began his address to the crowd of freshmen assembled in College Hall with the words, "Men and women of Dartmouth" for the first time in the Dartmouth's history. The Class of 1976 gathered there, the first Dartmouth class to be coeducational for all 4 years and the first to follow the D-plan for all four years, will return to Hanover this week for a reunion on the 25th anniversary of their graduation. While '76s acknowledged that there were many people on campus opposed to coeducation, they said the administration worked hard to fully integrate women into campus life. Melanie Fisher Matte '76 remembers how President Kemeny's opening remarks set the tone for her four years at Dartmouth. According to Matte, men did sometimes nastily tease women. For example, she recalled that Thayer Dining Hall bought eggs from a company that printed the words "Co-Hens" on its boxes, and that the word was sometimes used as a derogatory term for "co-ed." However, Matte added that such teasing was usually fairly easy to ignore, and that her experience as a female student at Dartmouth during the early years of coeducation was more positive than negative. Administrators went out of their way to start up programs in women's sports, Matte said, noting that she was able to participate in a number of different activities on campus. Matte was a member of Phi Tau fraternity and was the first female president of The Dartmouth. She loved the exuberant atmosphere of Dartmouth, and recollects fondly how shocked a visiting friend of hers from Harvard was by the amount of school spirit the Dartmouth spectators showed at ice hockey games. While Stephen Bell '76 remembers several letters angry letters about coeducation appearing in The Dartmouth while he was here, he said that most of his female friends were nonetheless able to thrive at Dartmouth. "Many of the men there wouldn't have gone to Dartmouth if it hadn't been coed," he said. He pointed out that approximately 80 percent of the committee planning this week's reunion are women.

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The Heart of Dartmouth

By Brad Russo | June 10, 2001

Commencement and Reunion is another of those great Dartmouth weekends. People don't talk as much about this weekend as Homecoming or Winter Carnival, perhaps because it's so bittersweet, but C&R defines what is truly amazing about Dartmouth.

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Waligore '01 starts liberal campus political paper

By Rachel Osterman | June 10, 2001

Tim Waligore '01 was working in Washington D.C. during an off-term last year and living with the current editor-in-chief of the conservative campus journal, The Dartmouth Review, when he resolved to start a new campus publication. Dartmouth, he believed, lacked a forum for liberal discourse.

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