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. 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." References External links Dartmouth College Wheelock Succession of Presidents Dartmouth College The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding 1907 births 1991 deaths American Presbyterians Dartmouth College alumni Harvard Law School alumni People from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Presidents of Dartmouth College Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 20th-century American academics