In light of Dartmouth's incredible location in the first-in-the-nation primary state, The Tucker Foundation is sponsering a voter registration drive for this Thursday, January 8, 2003. There will be two shifts of volunteers: the first from 6-8 PM, and the second from 8-10 PM. All who are interested in participating should contact Tucker Civic Intern Jeff Coots.
All First Year Students at Dartmouth are invited to participate in the Tucker Foundation's “Service and Social” trip to Boston. After being introduced to the academic side of the college, Tucker is offering the opportunity for 1st year students to get back into volunteerism, a chance to get away for a weekend and to gain some civic experience. At Tucker, we're all about community: Boston is booming with opportunity to help out in the community, and we'd like to foster some community within the '08 class. Right now, a group of students is planning the program which is set for the 4th weekend of the new year.
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On September 16th, 2006 the William Jewett Tucker Foundation hosted its 4th annual Run and Rally. The Run and Rally is a five-kilometer race in honor of the incoming freshmen, and is held to raise awareness for the Tucker Foundation. The 2006 event was a huge success with a record number 327 students participating on a picture perfect fall day; this number of participants was more than double the 2004 participation for the event. In addition to the Tucker Civic Interns, members of the Dartmouth men's cross country team came out to help volunteer at the event. Before the race went off, Dean Stuart Lord spoke on behalf of the foundation outlining the various activities that go on in Tucker and espousing the necessity of service in a Dartmouth education. After the race, Prizes donated from various Hanover businesses were rewarded to the first, second, and third runners with the 100th and 200th finishers also earning prizes as well. Additionally, all finishers and volunteers received a Tucker Nalgene bottle. Tucker's third Annual Run and Rally will be held on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2005, from 2-5pm. The 5-km run aims at introducing the freshmen to the myriad of volunteer opportunities and spiritual life the Tucker Foundation offers. Tucker Foundation: “Blankets for Bangladesh is a program started in 2002 in conjunction with the Tucker Foundation's 50 year anniversary. Several Dartmouth students undertook service work in the 2003-2004 academic year with boys at the Charfasson orphanage in Southern Bangladesh (Bhola Island). The orphanage is run by A.H.M. Mainuddin Ahmed (Jahangir) and it is home to 100 young boys. Over its 30 year existence it has provided for 1765 orphans, many of whom have become well-established in local society following their 16-18 year stay at the orphanage. In conjunction with the service work to be done at the orphanage, the Church of Latter-Day Saints community in the Upper Valley decided to create over 100 (roughly 115) blankets to go to the children of the orphanage. Blankets for Bangladesh was thus started.”
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Unique college partnership inspires Dartmouth students to join with Dartmouth alumni and their families in addressing problems facing our society.“If I have had a small fraction of the impact on the children that they have had on me, then I am quite satisfied with what I have accomplished.” This reflection from a DPCS intern demonstrates the transformative impact of a DPCS experience. Another former intern said, “For the first time, I not only interacted with homeless, HIV-positive, and substance-abusing people; I was able to offer them my help.” These special experiences also engage Dartmouth alumni mentors. One alumnus wrote: “Significant differences can be made in people's lives with the simple act of mentoring.”
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Cate: What campus organization sponsors this trip?Tucker: “The Death Penalty Symposium on February 6th, 2004 at Dartmouth College brought Lauren Girard Adams from Northwestern University's School of Law, Diann Rust-Tierney from the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project, and Abigail Baird from Dartmouth College to speak on juvenile executions and the implementation of the death penalty in the United States...Overall, the Symposium outlined the state of executions in the United States, particularly with regards to juvenile executions, as well as discussed and outlined strategies for promoting total abolition.”
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On October 24th, Big Brother Big Sister organized a pumpkin carving activity for big siblings and their little siblings to get ready for Halloween. Big Brother Big Sister is a volunteer organization under Tucker Foundation that pairs up Dartmouth students with children in the local community. Connections, a program under Big Brother Big Sister pairs students with children with disabilities. Each pair spends about four hours a week together. Tucker sponsors different activities like pumpkin carving every month for students and children alike to enjoy.
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The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Program offers an exciting and challenging multi-year enrichment experience for pre-college teens from under-resourced urban and rural high schools. Based on the Dartmouth College campus during the summer term, the program brings together college and community resources to provide a unique opportunity for growth for all involved. Founded in 2001, SEAD has thus far operated a first, second and third year component and will be offering a SEAD I and SEAD III summer experience in 2004. Co-sponsored by the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and the Education Department at Dartmouth College, SEAD works to expand its students’ conception of what is possible in their lives.
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Katie Sullan is from Morrison, Colorado and is a competitive freestyle skier. She trains and competes in Winter Park, Colorado during the winter term, and attends school during the summer. While on campus, Katie trains with the Dartmouth Women’s Alpine Team, and is a sister of Kappa Delta Epsilon. During her freshman summer, Katie began volunteering for Little Kids LEAD, a student run Tucker Foundation organization. The program allows Dartmouth students to work with and mentor children from first to sixth grade from Romano Circle, a government housing development, near West Lebanon.
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We grieve the loss of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, an inspiring Dartmouth student who devoted much of her life to helping address problems facing our society. Meleia is truely respected and loved for her engaging, intelligent, passionate and compassionate interactions with everyone she encountered. She was a person of conviction, reflection and action. Meleia was living in a University of California, Berkeley, southern campus neighborhood when she was fatally shot in a senseless act of violence at 1:45 a.m. on July 17, 2005. Meleia had returned to Berkeley, her high school hometown to participate in the Dartmouth College, Tucker Foundation's “Dartmouth Partners in Community Services Internship Program.” She was interning at the “Women's Daytime Drop-In Center” working with women and children to assess and meet their needs for educational, health and housing referrals.The Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) was founded in 1995 by the Dartmouth Class of 1959 at its 35th reunion and funds from the DPCS endowment and the Tucker Foundation. DPCS received the 2000 Points of Light Award from the Corporation for National Service and Points of Light Foundation. Students are awarded stipends for eight week internships with U.S. non-profit organizations. DPCS partners an alumni mentor and a Tucker Foundation educational advisor with each DPCS intern. 240 Dartmouth undergraduates have participated in DPCS internships in 102 organizations within 20 states over theThe South Reporter: Five college students from Hanover, New Hampshire, got a taste of the South last week. They spent a week in Mississippi bringing computer technology to ICS Head Start Centers in the Delta...Sophomore Tramaine Tyson, a government major from New York City, said the numerous colleges benefitted this year from the service program provided through Dartmouth's Tucker Foundation.
For people half a world away, December 26th, 2004 is marked as the most horrific day in recent history. Although the Dartmouth community did not physically feel the tsunami that devastated south Asia, concern over the rising death toll consumed the campus.
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Tuesday November 2, 2004 will be a day to remember for many people. It marks the day that changed the lives of all Americans for better or worse - yes it was another presidential election, and an especially close one at that with President Bush declared the final victor. For many Dartmouth students, this was the first presidential election that they were able to vote in. Some voted in their home states, but many were encouraged to vote in New Hampshire, where their vote was significant in deciding who the state went to. Various campus groups started Sunday to get students motivated to vote by sliding flyers under dorm rooms, standing on streets with posters, and asking passersby if they had registered. Overall voting numbers increased nationwide from 105 million in the 2000 election to 112 million in this election.
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Matt Sueoka, hailing from Orinda, California is a member of the Varsity Men’s Swim Team and has an interest in architecture and business. After chairing Operation Insulation, a Tucker Organization that focuses on home repairs for disadvantaged Upper Valley residents, and working for two leave-terms with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings on a project that combined his passions for architecture, construction, and service.
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Maria Quiray was appointed as the Tucker Foundation Fellowships & Internships Program Advisor in October 2005. In this role, Maria is responsible for advising students interested in undertaking full-time, leave-term community service experiential opportunities both domestically and abroad. Maria will also help create curriculum and strategies to foster student learning in general and specifically in the areas of ethical leadership, cultural competence, community service and global citizenship. In addition, she is coordinating special events, administration related to the department's programs, and assisting with stewardship relations and marketing.
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Thank you Dave Allen. Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Tucker Foundation Board and Staff, Valued Students, Distinguished Guests, thank you for the privilege of sharing with you the Tucker commitment to the work of Dartmouth Partners in Community Service. Ten years ago, the Class of 1959 in conjunction with the Tucker Foundation dared to extend its vision to working with Dartmouth alumni in helping students find mentors. Thus, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service arose to meet this important need. Their mission?
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Stuart Lord (left), Virginia Rice Kelsey '61S Dean of the Tucker Foundation, congratulates Lee Smith on his graduation from the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) III program on July 10.
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Emily Meier, Class of 2005 from Ann Arbor, Michigan, is in her third year of service with Habitat for Humanity. In her first two years she revamped the Education program, an awareness curriculum aimed at elementary students, and co-lead that program. She participated in an Alternative Spring Break in the Spring of 2002, in which a group of Dartmouth students built a roof for a Habitat for Humanity home outside Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Marzuq Muhammad is from Boston, Massachusetts and since his freshman year has been active in a number of organizations throughout the Dartmouth community. One of Marzuq’s primary involvements began his freshman spring, when he assisted in the Office of Fellowships and Internships at the Tucker Foundation. In this capacity Marzuq worked to help plan and organize the Cool Movement Summit, a three-day conference focused on educating and mobilizing college students to strengthen their communities through service and action.
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Hernan Ortiz is from Washington Heights, New York City. He is Vice-President of the Dartmouth Boxing Club. In between the fall and winter term of his sophomore year, Hernan participated in a Cross-Cultural Service and Education Program through the Tucker Foundation in Siuna, Nicaragua. The Cross-Cultural Service and Education Program is a thirteen-day trip to Nicaragua that focuses on working together with the people of Siuna in order to help construct a health clinic, provide basic medical healthcare and educate the community on issues of public health. Throughout the trip, they were also able to do agricultural work and experience, to some degree, for a few days, the difficulty and hardships that these people endured every day.
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The green bracelet has hit Dartmouth's Campus. Wear it on your wrist as a reminder, as inspiration, It's more than trying...it's doing. The proceeds will benefit will the Charfassion Orphanage in Bangladesh. Matt Sueoka '04 created a new set of building blueprints for the orphanage for his senior thesis last year. A group of Dartmouth students known as “Team Taka” are leading the fundraising effort to raise the needed $300,000. They've already raised $60,000.
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Michael is a Biochemistry major from the class of ’06 with the eventual goal of pursuing an MD/PhD and going into medicine. While at Dartmouth, he has taken part in both of the CCESP trips offered by the Tucker Foundation in addition to continuing an ongoing commitment to tutoring students in high school and college subjects. Through an internship at the Albany Medical School, Michael has also worked on research contributing to a possible breast cancer treatment. He is currently performing research on the mechanisms leading to diabetes at Dartmouth Medical School.
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In 1959, John F. Kennedy said, “When written in Chinese, the word ”crisis“ is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” We are faced with these two distinct components to the crisis confronting the citizens of the Gulf Coast. It is true that there is tremendous danger. People are without homes, food and medicines. Lives have been lost; families have been torn apart; every day seems to bring a new crisis or at least, a new layer to the crisis.
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Student Quote: “I love it when the kids get that light behind their eyes, meaning that they really *get* what we've been saying, and it has inspired something further in their minds. I also love it when they best me at something!”
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Members of the Dartmouth community and the surrounding area are invited to gather on the Green on Friday, September 30 at noon, when there will be a time for reflection on the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast region. Dean of the College James Larimore will deliver opening remarks and Stuart Lord, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, will offer words of reflection and meditation. Faculty, students and others who have been coordinating the College's relief, service, education and fundraising efforts on behalf of the storms' victims will be available to share ideas and explain how members of the community may join their efforts.
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The Tucker Foundation provided us with an account of Jonathan Tullis' work with the Habitat ASB: The Habitat ASB has been one of the best experiences of my life. It provided the perfect balance between physical service, thought-provoking reflection, and wonderful relaxation. In my trip, we drove down to Virginia where we stayed with an extremely generous host family for about one week. During the day at the Habitat site, we cut boards, assembled rafters, attached the rafters, nailed plywood onto these rafters, and covered this new roof with tarpaper. Basically, we built a roof! After doing physical labor for about 6 hours each day, we reflected about our day and placed our work in a bigger picture.
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Daniel Shivapour is from Burlington, Iowa and has been actively involved in a number of Tucker Foundation projects during his time at Dartmouth. As a pre-med Biochemistry major with aspirations to become a pediatric specialist, his largest commitments have been to programs in Health and Fitness area of the Dartmouth Community Services. This is Daniel’s second year as Chair of the Dartmouth Wishing Well and his third year of involvement as a mentor in the S.T.A.R. (Steps Toward Adult Responsibility) program.
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Tucker Murphy, a 2004 Dartmouth graduate, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for Bermuda. He hopes to study for a master of science degree in integrative bioscience at Oxford University in England.
This week, Dartmouth held a blood drive at Alumni Hall. Blood Drives Coordinator Zak Kaufman '08 took the time to answer some questions about the effort.Melissa is a Biology major from the class of ’05. She is a volunteer and chair of the Prison Project, and has thus worked extensively to tutor minimum-security inmates in reading, math, and GED prep. Melissa is dedicated to dialogue, and has started an on-campus Ayn Rand discussion group with a friend. Additionally, she has taken part in the March for Women’s Lives and is inspired to become more politically active, stating that “if I want something to be changed then I need to work towards making it happen.”
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This Thursday at 5 PM, Psi U will host a BBQ to benefit the Charfassion Orphanage in Bangladesh. Matt Sueoka '04 came up with the design for a new orphange for his thesis. He will be giving a public presentation of his design at 4:30 in Silsby 28. According to the Tucker Foundation Website:
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ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Election Express at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. TUCKER CARLSON, CO-HOST: Welcome to CROSSFIRE. The CNN Election Express has careened onto the campus of Dartmouth College, a place some of us tried to get into many years ago, unsuccessfully.(LAUGHTER) CARLSON: Dartmouth was founded in 1769 and quickly became the subject of one of the most important court cases in early U.S. history, a case that resulted in state governments being told to keep their noses out of a private institution's business. And hooray for that.
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Mats Lemberger is an English major from the class of ’06. He has a long and varied history of commitment to improving the lives of others through service, having worked extensively with Habitat for Humanity both before and after joining the Dartmouth community. Additionally, he has worked as a summer teacher for low-income junior high school students, volunteered at a New York City homeless shelter, and traveled to Brazil to assist students in planting a garden at their school.
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At Physicians for Human Rights this summer, Kim worked with several projects. She spent a portion of her time investigating and inspecting juvenile detention facilities to protect the rights of youth detained in these facilities.
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On Tuesday November 9th Al-Nur, the Muslim Student Association presented the Ensemble Al-Kindî and the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus to Amarna for a dinner and discussion. Al-Nur was founded in 1983 and provides students with Muslim backgrounds or interests with a place of discussion and support. Working with the Office of Religion and Spiritual Life, Al-Nur encourages communication among religious groups and other communities in order to reach a greater understanding of spirituality.
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A campus-wide walkathon will be held this SATURDAY, October 29 to benefit the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes!! Come to Collis Commonground at 1pm on Oct 29 to participate in a 5K walk/run through the Dartmouth campus. Free food and t-shirts will be provided, and the Subtleties will be performing! A $10 donation is required of all participants. Register the day of or from 6-8pm this Thursday in the Thayer lobby. Please blitz Elisa Donnelly '07 for more information.
President James Wright was presented a check for $11.2 million at 1955's 50th Reunion last June. This represented gifts and pledges for the last three years from 95% of the Class. This 50th Gift included the creation of the 1955 John Sloan Dickey Scholarship, already sponsoring three undergraduates, and the 1955 Tucker Foundation Fellowship. 1955 is also a major supporter of the Hood and the student-athlete visitation program.
The Tucker Foundation: "The Granger award, given to graduates whose commitments to public service illustrates leaderships, innovation in meeting community needs and produces outcomes that benefit an underserved population, was awarded to Theresa M. Ellis ’97 and Michael Stern '59
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David joined Geocapital Partners in 2000, specializing in information technology infrastructure, electronic commerce, and for enterprise applications solutions and services sectors. 
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the Tucker Foundation sent another two service trips to Biloxi, Miss., during interim. While Tucker regularly sponsors programs for Dartmouth students to volunteer and participate in hurricane-related relief efforts, this trip marked the first time that a trip comprised of Dartmouth alumni, faculty and staff worked there. Associate Provost and Dean of the Tucker Foundation Stuart Lord, Frederica Ghesquiere ‘04 and Stan Colla ‘66 Tu’86 led that trip, while Raymond Rodriguez ‘09 and Amy Quan ‘09 led the student trip.
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Newhouse News Service: “...That moment is in a way emblematic of the Kucinich for President campaign: out in the wilderness compared with operations like President Bush's and Howard Dean's, and headed off the beaten path. His is a campaign preaching world peace, health care without insurance and education for all, a campaign by a little-known Cleveland congressman whom many in mainstream politics write off as incidental... Could he spare a minute to join Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala in CNN's traveling bus studio in Concord? Of course. Could he get to a Manchester TV studio by 5 for a Fox News interview? Unfortunately, no; an audience of health care professionals was waiting for him at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.”
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In response to the evident need of senior care programs in the Upper Valley, Dartmouth Community Services (DCS) launched the Generations Project this past fall. The project encompasses numerous programs that serve the senior citizen community.
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Join fellow Dartmouth students in an effort to bring food-security to those in need. Dartmouth Ends Hunger, DEH, is a new student-run project through the Tucker Foundation, in which participants attend meals of rice and beans-a common diet in developing nations-during the week of Nov. 13th (Hunger/Homelessness Awareness Week).
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On May 5, the Campus Compact for New Hampshire (CCNH) held its second annual Presidents' Awards Ceremony at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H. Founded in 1997, CCNH is a statewide consortium of college and university presidents and private sector partners who are united in their commitment to the civic purposes of higher education. Three Presidents' Awards are awarded to organizations and individuals from each member college or university in recognition of their work strengthening and improving New Hampshire communities. The Dartmouth award recipients were: Dartmouth College's Big Brother/Big Sister program, William Hochstin, and the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley (DCUV).“Whenever I get into a difficult situation, I think about what SEAD has taught me about having my own voice,” a SEAD participant commented during their reunion weekend. On Thursday November 11, 2004, fourteen SEAD III high school seniors reunited in Hanover for activities and updates on their lives.
