Benjamin Ames Kimball

Student at Chandler's Scientific Department at Dartmouth College B.S. 07-27-1854

1908 - Dartmouth College conferred upon BAK the honorary degree of Mast of Arts

Dartmouth College - Chandler Scientific School:

1890-93 - Member of the Board of Visitors to the Chandler Scientific School
1893 - Nominated to be one of two trustees who managed the Scientific School
1894 - Board elected him to replace ex-governor Benjamin F Prescott to the Committee on Finance of Buildings and Improvements
Installed one of the most successful central heating plants to be found anywhere.
With Judge John Hopkins, they helped to integrate the Chandler School with Dartmouth College.

Mr. Kimball was the permanent secretary of his class and in that capacity had recorded the passing of all its members, with one exception.

The class at graduation numbered 61, of whom the best known, in New Hampshire, were General John Eaton and Colonel Daniel Hall, but whose general average of success in life and distinguished service was unusually high.

Mr. Kimball served as a member of the Board of Visitors to the Chandler Scientific Department from 1890 to 1895, and when, in the latter year, he began his long and valuable service as a trustee of the college, one of his first concerns was the complete merger of the C.S.D. with the college proper. During his quarter of a century as trustee, Mr. Kimball served on the finance committee of the board, much of the time as its chairman, and in this capacity his great business ability and experience were of inestimable benefit to the college in the days of its wonderful growth and expansion.

The wisely generous provisions in his will for his college showed him in death as in life a loyal Dartmouth man, ever desirous of promoting the best interests of the institution.