John Sloan Dickey (4 November 1907 – 9 February 1991) was an American diplomat, scholar, and intellectual. Dickey served as President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire from 1945 to 1970, and helped revitalize the Ivy League institution. is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... For the record label, see Ivy League Records. ...

Early life

Dickey, born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth in 1929 and later graduated from Harvard Law School. Dickey had a varied career: partner at a major Boston law firm, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State and later to the Secretary of State, a member of the Office of Inter-American Affairs and the division of World Trade Intelligence, and Director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs. In 1945, he became President of Dartmouth College. "Even after he assumed office in 1945 he was a principal actor in public policy, serving on President Truman's 1947 Committee on Civil Rights, the United Nations Collective Measures Committee in 1951, and as consultant to Secretary of State Acheson on disarmament."[1] Lock Haven is a city in and the county seat of Clinton CountyGR6, Pennsylvania, United States. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or HLS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... The Assistant Secretary of State, from 1853 until 1913, was the second-ranking official within the American Department of State. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... The United States governments Office of Inter-American Affairs or Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) was established in 1940 to promote increased inter-American cooperation, especially in commercial and economic areas. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the late 1940s he played the central role in defining American foreign policy for the Cold War. ...

Dartmouth presidency

Regularly welcoming freshmen at Convocation with the phrase "your business here is learning," John Sloan Dickey was committed to making Dartmouth the best liberal arts college in the country.

John Sloan Dickey's commitment to the liberal arts, or, as he termed them "the liberating arts," was perhaps best expressed in an innovative course on "Great Issues," designed to introduce seniors to the problems of national and international relations they would face as citizens. President Dickey also reintroduced doctoral programs to Dartmouth, as well as a Northern Studies program and a Russian Civilization department. Dickey sought to expand the horizons of Dartmouth beyond Hanover and introduced foreign studies programs, a public affairs internship, and various social action programs. The William Jewett Tucker Foundation was opened by President Dickey, offering students opportunity and academic credit for social activism. In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ...

During his 25-year tenure, President Dickey headed two capital campaigns, doubled African American student enrollment, reinvigorated the Dartmouth Medical School, built the Hopkins Center and instituted continuing education for alumni. Consistent with his concern for awareness of and involvement in the great movements of the time, he saw the emerging importance of computers--a field then in its infancy--and built the Kiewit Computation Center in 1966. After stepping down as president, he continued his affiliation with the College by teaching Canadian-American relations as the Bicentennial Professor of Public Affairs. Posted with permission from Dartmouth College Dartmouth Medical School is the medical school of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. ... The Hopkins Center Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at Dartmouth College is located at 2 East Wheelock Street in Hanover, New Hampshire. ... The tower of a personal computer. ...

In 1982, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding was opened at Dartmouth to honor Dickey's legacy and "coordinate, sustain, and enrich the international dimension of liberal arts education at Dartmouth."[2] Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

External links

• Dartmouth College Wheelock Succession of Presidents
• Dartmouth College
• The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding