OUR NEW TRUSTEES
In the death of the Honorable Benjamin Ames Kimball, July 25, and Sanford H. Steele, December 19, 1920, Dartmouth lost two of its most loyal and distinguished alumni and trustees. For twenty-five years Mr. Kimball had served the College officially, having been elected to the Board of Trustees in 1895. Mr. Steele was a more recent member of that body, his position having been taken in 1918. Both were men of those finest qualities which the Board of Trustees has always embraced, both constanlly true to the highest ideals of Dartmouth men. To them and to their love and enthusiasm for Dartmouth the College will forever be in debt.
At the November meeting of the Board of Trustees Governor Albert O. Brown, an alumni member of the Board, was elected to life membership in that body to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Kimball. It then became necessary that a new member be nominated by the alumni to supply the position formerly held by Governor Brown. Shortly thereafter the death of Air. Steele created another vacancy for which the alumni of the College were required to nominate another of their number. The nomination of Harry H. Blunt of Boston, Mass., to take the place on the Board formerly occupied by Governor Brown was made last fall.
Mr. Blunt was born August 28, 1875, in Nashua, and graduate and from Dartmouth in the class of 1897. In addition to his position a s treasurer and general manager of the Wonalancet Company of Nashua, he is treasurer and general manager of the Wonalancet Company of Peru, a director of the Vacuum Company of Boston and New York City, a member of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, and of the American Cotton Waste Exchange. From 1907 to 1913 Mr. Blunt was a member of the Board of Education of Nashua, serving as president of the Board for four years. He is vice-president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and a member of the Dartmouth Club of Boston, the Nashua Country Club, the Vesper Country Club of Lowell, and the Exchange Club of Boston. At Dartmouth he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and the Sphinx senior society.
On March 1, 1921, the nomination of Clarence B. Little to serve throughout the unexpired term of Mr. Steele's trusteeship, terminating June 30, 1924, was made. Mr. Little was born November 16,1857, a t Pembroke, N. H., and after graduating from Dartmouth, studied law at Harvard and later with Chase and Streeter in Concor d, N. H. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice at Bismarck, N. D., where he has resided since that time.
In 1885 Mr. Little was appointed Colonel on Governor Pierce's staff and detailed as Inspector General of Militia. From 1884 to 1888 he was Judge of Probate for Burleigh County, and from 1887 to 1891 was President of the Bismarck Board of Education. Mr. Little was also a member of the North Dakota State Senate from 1889 to 1909 and President Pro Tem in 1897. For the entire period in the Senate he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Little is President of the First National Bank of Bismarck, the McKenzie State Bank, the Sterling State Bank, the Farmer's State Bank, the Wing and Moffett State Bank, and of the Beulah Coal Mining Company Mr. Little is also Vice-President of the North Dakota Historical Society and Preside nt of the Dartmouth College Alumni Council. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, the Minnesota University, and Town and Country Clubs of St. Paul, and the Minneapolis, and Rocky Mountain Clubs of New York.
The April meeting of the Board of Trustees in Hanwa s attended by every member of that body, and as the record published elsewhere in the MAGAZINE shows, the first action taken by the Board was the formal election to membership of both Mr. Little and Mr. Blunt. Dartmouth has acquired again for her life and works the services of two of her finest and most loyal sons.
HARRY H. BLUNT '97
CLARENCE B. LITTLE '81
