Views From the Green in May

Members of the Dartmouth community read the names of those who died while at Dartmouth during the dedication of a Hawthorn tree outside Rollins Chapel. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Flowers bloom across campus, welcoming spring with vibrant hues. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Faculty members Michael Zsoldos on the saxophone, Jesse Taitt on the piano, and Tim Sessions on the trombone play a spot of jazz in the East Reading Room of Baker Library. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Esme Lee ’24 draws freshly sprouted dandelions. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Reed Macey ’24 and Kelly Timmes ’24 relax on the Green with chess and a book. (Photo by Robert Gill)

A bed of flowers begin to bloom as spring makes its way to campus. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Star Trek actor George Takei gives the Vulcan salute to an enthusiastic audience at the Hanover Inn last week. Now a political activist, social media celebrity, and writer, Takei was on campus in early May as a Montgomery Fellow. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Montgomery Fellow George Takei received standing ovations before and after his public talk last week at the Hanover Inn. As a young boy, the future Star Trek actor-turned-activist and his family were held in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Students sample food at the Vietnam table set up for the International Street Food Fair. (Photo by Benjamin Joel ’27)

Dankweli Mwaka ’27, Li Conway ’24, and T.T. Chen ’25 look for stickers at the Green Lambda booth staffed by Thayer PhD student Riley Renee Flores during this year’s Dartmouth Pride celebrations. (Photo by Beam Lertbunnaphongs ’25)

The Rauner Special Collections Library is sporting a new copper roof as part of a renovation project that also included replacing and restoring the building’s copper detailing, cornices, and decorative corbels. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Thomas Mitchell ’27 and Celine Romero Garcia ’24 throw colored powder at each other during the festive J’ouvert, the daybreak celebration that signals the start of Carnival. The theme of Dartmouth’s 2024 Caribbean Carnival was “One Love.” (Photo by Beam Lertbunnaphongs ’25)

David Adams ’26 tries his hand at parchment-making at a workshop in the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. (Photo by Robert Gill)