HOMER EATON KEYES RESIGNS AS BUSINESS DIRECTOR

At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees the resignation of Homer Eaton Keyes as Business Director of the College was presented to the Board. Mr. Keyes has been closely associated with the College since his graduation in 1900. During his undergraduate days he was active in the affairs of the College, serving as editor of The Dartmouth, the Aegis and The Dartmouth Literary Magazine, and immediately on graduation he was appointed instructor in English. After a period of study in Germany, he returned to the College as Assistant Professor of Modern Art and instructor of English until 1913, when he was appointed Business Director of the College. His work in this position was vitally connected with the physical development of the college plant, the adjustment of the present equipment and current needs and the planning for a long-time future. He was also intimately connected with all the alumni movements of that period. Since 1912 he has served as secretary of the Alumni Association and since the organization of the Alumni Council in 1913 he has been its secretary. He has also served as the executive secretary of the Alumni Fund, which has each year successfully appealed to the alumni for funds to meet the current indebtedness. In accepting his resignation, the trustees expressed their appreciation of his services to the. College in the following resolution:

Resolved: That the Trustees make formal record of their sense of high value of Mr. Keyes' devoted services to the College through the two decades in which he has been associated with its work, first as Instructor in English, then, after special preparation, as Professor of Fine Arts, and finally, for the last eight years as administrative officer in charge of the business affairs of the College through important years of expansion and readjustment.

The variety of his talents have made not only the quality of his service, but the flexibility with which it could be applied, ah attribute of special value to the College through recent years of evolution in administrative policies and formulation of plans for future development of material equipment.

The Trustees, in thus expressing appreciation of the value of the service which Mr. Keyes has rendered, would likewise make formal expression to him of their interest and good wishes in whatever he may undertake in the future, and their appreciation of the value of his solicitous interest for the College welfare, whether expressed through official connection or in the no less important relationship of Alumni effort.

A resolution was also adopted by the Alumni Council as follows:

Resolved: That the Alumni Council hereby expresses its sincere regret and a deep sense of personal loss in the resignation of Homer E. Keyes as Secretary of the Council. Since the early days of the Council Mr. Keyes has been constant in its service and a leader in its activities. To his resourceful mind and untiring energy are due many of its chief accomplishments. In reluctantly accepting his resignation the members of the Council wish to record their full , appreciation of the continuing values of his work.