Kim Rekindles Dartmouth Alumni Amid Austerity Protest

When Jim Yong Kim left a March gathering of more than 600 Dartmouth alumni in New York, he received a standing ovation that no one could have expected for the new president at the Ivy League college with the most contentious relationship with its graduates.

Kim, 50, an authority on health care in developing nations who never visited the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus before 2008, won the crowd over by praising the college’s fraternities. He talked about attending a football game with a 102-year-old alumnus and introduced a star high school quarterback recruit.