John Sloan Dickey; Former Dartmouth President

John Sloan Dickey, 83, whose 25-year tenure as president of Dartmouth College after World War II was considered a period of unparalleled progress for the Ivy League school. Dickey was appointed Dartmouth’s 12th president in 1945 and retired in 1970. Dickey expanded Dartmouth’s medical school and started its equal opportunity program, which in a short time more than doubled the school’s black enrollment. “More than any other person at least since the Second World War, John Sloan Dickey embodied this college’s institutional purpose, its culture, its history, its spirit,” said James Freedman, Dartmouth’s current president. Dickey graduated from Dartmouth in 1929 and from Harvard Law School in 1932, when he began his law practice. During World War II, Dickey served as chief of the State Department’s Division of World Trade Intelligence. He worked as public liaison officer for the U.S. delegation to the 1945 San Francisco conference that established the United Nations and later served on President Harry S. Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights. In Hanover, N. Y., on Saturday.