Points of Pride

Two and a half centuries of Dartmouth achievements, turning points, contributions, and leadership

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Owen Chamberlain ‘41 Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

1959

At Dartmouth he won the prestigious Thayer Prize in Mathematics and the Kramer Fellowship, which funded his initial graduate studies at Berkeley.

Jodi Archambault Gillette ‘91 Appointed White House Liaison

2009

In February 2009 Barack Obama named Gillette a deputy associate director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Martin Luther King Speakat at Dartmouth, 1960

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaks at Dartmouth

1962

On May 23, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to an overflow crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall.

Coeducation

1972

Women had been coming to campus through exchanges in the years leading up to coeducation, but they could not graduate with a Dartmouth degree.

C. Everett Koop ‘37 Begins Serving as U.S. Surgeon General

1982

Koop changed the way American medicine was practiced—and that was before he became the nation’s top doctor.

John Carleton, Class of 1922, Competes at the Inaugural Winter Olympics

1924

Since those first Winter Games, the College on the Hill has seen student-athletes and alumni participate in every Winter Olympics.

Dartmouth's First Sustainability Moving Sale

2006

Started by students, this annual sale attracts crowds of bargain hunters during orientation week.

Founding of Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning

2004

DCAL helps Dartmouth faculty develop new teaching tools and strategies, especially purposeful applications of digital technology and new media.

BASIC Revolutionizes Computer Programming

1964

In the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals.

George Perkins Marsh, Class of 1820, Publishes "Man and Nature"

1864

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent.”

Andrea Hayes-Jordan ’87, DMS’91 Becomes the Nation's First Black Female Pediatric Surgeon

2004

In 2006, Hayes-Jordan became the first surgeon in the United States to successfully use “heated” chemotherapy on a child.

The Arts Club Brings Literary Giants to Dartmouth

1930

In the span of just a few weeks in the spring of 1930, Carl Sandburg, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay presented their work to students.

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