Michael Choukas, Jr. ʻ51 Director of Alumni Affairs Emeritus
Michael Choukas, Jr. ʻ51 Director of Alumni Affairs Emeritus An Interview Conducted by Jane Carroll September 4, 1996 September 11, 1996 DOH-23 Special Collections Library Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Michael Choukas, Jr. INTERVIEW: Michael Choukas, Jr. INTERVIEWED BY: Jane Carroll PLACE: Baker Library Hanover, New Hampshire DATE: September 4, 1996 CARROLL: [Today is] September 4, 1996, and Iʼm speaking with Michael Choukas, Jr., Class of ʻ51 and the Director of Alumni Affairs Emeritus. I wanted to start and have you talk about your long association with Dartmouth. Did you grow up here in Hanover? CHOUKAS: I grew up here in Hanover, yes. My father, who was the Class of ʻ27, came back in the fall of ʻ29 to teach and he was a professor here for 39 years. So at the age of a year and a half I moved to Hanover and lived here—well, we moved to Norwich in ʻ41 but I went through the Hanover school system into high school and then went to Vermont Academy as a student and graduated from there. I then went to Clark School, which was in Hanover, as a post-graduate day student, and then to Dartmouth, and graduated in ʻ51. CARROLL: What was Dartmouth like back in the 40s? CHOUKAS: And the ʻ30s? CARROLL: And the ʻ30s, yes, thatʼs right! CHOUKAS: Well, Dartmouth was—this is a stereotypical quote—monolithic, although we didnʼt realize it in those days. It was a small college but it was very nationally prominent, and I guess I can talk more about what Hanover was like from—through the eyes of a young kid growing up here.
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