Remembering Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, born July 8, 1908
The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College was founded in 1983 to commemorate the contributions of Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 to the life of the nation. Rockefeller himself was born 107 years ago today on July 8th, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, the grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. Rockefeller's primary and secondary schooling came at the Lincoln School, a private New York City institution. Rockefeller then came to Dartmouth for higher education, graduating cum laude with an A.B.
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