ORGANIZATION OF TUCK SCHOOL CLEARING HOUSE

The twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the Tuck School was celebrated at Commencement by a reunion of Tuck School alumni. About fifty men, representing all but a few of the classes graduated, attended a smoker on Sunday evening in the Library of the School.

The reunion was also made the occasion for effecting the organization of an association of Tuck School alumni, to be known as the Amos Tuck School Clearing House. A constitution was adopted, officers were elected, and plans were adopted for completing the membership enrollment.

Quoting from the constitution, the purposes of the association are as follows:

I. To promote and preserve the solidarity of the alumni of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, Dartmouth College;

2. To serve as a medium for expression of alumni opinion and for collective alumni action in matters affecting the welfare of the School and of its alumni;

3. To provide for the maintenance of co-operation between the School and the alumni, to the end that their mutual interests may be furthered.

Graduates of the Amos Tuck School and men who have attended the School for at least one year as special or first year students, are eligible for membership. Besides granting honorary membership to the faculty of the Amos Tuck School, provision is made for including as honorary members persons to whom it is desired to give such recognition because of conspicuous services to the School.

A Board of Directors, to be elected annually, will govern the general policies of the association. For the year, 1921-22, the Directors who have been elected are:

J. Frank Drake, '03, Chairman.

Gilbert H. Tapley, '17, Secretary.

Nathaniel G. Burleigh, '12.

Allan L. Priddy, '16.

George Gregory, '20.

Another interesting feature of the plan is a provision for the organization of local branches in districts in which several Tuck School alumni reside. Local branches will choose presiding officers to be known as managers.

An annual meeting of the Clearing House will be held each Commencement in Hanover and there will be at least one meeting yearly of each local branch. At these local meetings it is planned to have speakers of prominence in business or public affairs. Plans are well under way for the organization of the local alumni branches, and already one hundred and sixty-six alumni have been enrolled as members.

The first activity of the Clearing House will be the publication of a bulletin containing articles by alumni and members of the Faculty, business bibliographies, summaries of current business conditions, reports of Tuck School lectures and other material of value to the alumni.

The Directors also plan to maintain a service for the exchange of employment information. Any other undertakings which the Board of Directors may deem expedient will be originated from time to time.

"The Clearing House" has for several years been the name of an organization of the second-year students in the Tuck School. The purposes of this organization have been partly social and partly related to the work of the School. The program of regular weekly meetings have included discussions of current business topics, problems of school policy, and matters of student self-government. Visiting lecturers are regularly entertained by the Clearing House. It will continue these functions as the student branch of the larger organization, and it is hoped in this way to promote close relations and co-operation between the students, alumni and faculty of the school.