F. A. HOWLAND '87 NOMINATED FOR TRUSTEESHIP
Fred Arthur Howland '87 has been nominated by the Alumni Council as an alumni trustee of the College to succeed Dr. John M. Gile '87, of Hanover, whose term expires in June. Dr. Gile has served two terms as an alumni trustee. If the nomination of the Council is ratified by the alumni, Mr. Howland will serve as a trustee for a term of five years dating from June 30 of this year.
Mr. Howland was born in Franconia, N. H., November 10, 1864. After he graduated from Dartmouth in the class of '87, he studied and practiced law until 1903. In 1896 he served as clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives, from 1896-98 was State's attorney for Washington County, Vt., and from 1898-1902 was secretary of the State of Vermont. In 1903 he became associated with the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., for which he was Counsel until 1909, and of which he has been president since 1916.
In 1910 Mr. Howland served as chairman of the Committee to Revise Banking Laws for the State of Vermont, and from 1913-18 was chairman of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund Committee. Mr. Howland is Trustee of the Vermont Permanent School Fund and of the Vermont State Library. He is a member of the Vermont State Board of Education and of the Executive Committee of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents.
He is a member of the University Club of New York and of Phi Beta Kappa.
The following men have also been nominated for the Alumni Council for three-year terms: To represent New England, Lafayette R. Chamberlin 'OS; of Boston; to represent the Middle and Southern States, George M. Morris '11, of Washington, D. C.; for the Central States, Warren C. Agry '11, of Chicago, Ill.; for the Western States, Henry D. Thrall '06, of Minneapolis, Minn.; and for the Rocky Mountain and Pacific States, David J. Main '06, of Denver, Colo.
Mr. Chamberlin graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1908 and has practiced in Boston since then. He is now a member the firm of Chamberlin, Bosson & Johnson, 30 State street.
Dr. Morris received the Degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Chicago in 1915. During the war he served as First Lieutenant in the Ordinance department for seventeen months. He is now engaged in the practice of law in Washington.
Mr. Agry has been associated since graduation with F. M. Lupton, Publishers, Inc., and for the last three years has been western manager and director of the company, which is the one which publishes the "Peoples Home Journal" and "McClures Magazine." He has also previously been a member of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association.
Mr. Thrall, who is president and treasurer of the Minnesota Loan & Trust Co. and director of the Northwestern National Bank, is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association.
Mr. Main has been engaged in the general insurance business since graduation and is now a member of the firm of Standart & Main, Colorado building, Denver.
