RESIGNATION OF J. W. GANNON FROM ATHLETIC COUNCIL

Joseph W. Gannon '99 has presented to the Alumni Council his resignation as a member of the Athletic Council. Mr. Gannon has served on the Athletic Council much of the time as its president since 1910. He has been closely identified with all the athletic activities of the College and much of the success attendant upon the work of the Council has been due to his untiring activity and good judgment. His letter of resignation follows:

MARCH FOURTH, 1922.

Mr. E. W. KNIGHT, PresidentCouncil of the Alumni of DartmouthCollege, Charleston, West Virginia

Dear Mr. Knight: The exactions of a growing business make it impossible for me to continue to give to the affairs of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council the time and effort which is required by membership in that body. For this reason I am compelled with much regret to offer my resignation as a member and President of the Athletic Council to take effect March 15th.

This will practically complete a continuous service of 12 years on the Athletic Council for which I have been richly compensated by the privilege of serving Dartmouth College and by contact and pleasant associations with its Alumni Faculty and Undergraduates.

As the term for which I was elected does not expire until June, 1923, it will be necessary for the Council of the Alumni to elect a successor to serve until that time.

Sincerely yours, (Signed)

In acknowledging the resignation, Mr. Knight well expressed the feeling of the Council when he wrote:

"Like others who have appreciated the quantity and quality of your work as a member, and for a long time as President of the Athletic Council, I regret that you feel' compelled to sever your connection with it, but I realize that you are best qualified to judge what, you should do in the face of the conflicting. demands upon your time, and most certainly you have given the college and its athletic affairs so generously of your time and effort that you are entitled to transfer the burden if and when you want to. I hope, however, that you will modify your resignation so that it may become effective at the pleasure of the Alumni Council, which will mean at the June meeting in Hanover, and that until such time you will continue to serve as President of the Athletic Council."

The opinion of the alumni in general is well represented in the following quotation of a letter from President Hopkins to Mr. Gannon :

"You have rendered long and most valuable service in this connection and no one has a right to quarrel with your argument that you are entitled. to a release and to the opportunity to attend to your own business.

I wish, in behalf of Dartmouth alumni in general, however, to thank you for what you have done and for all the time and service which you have given to the College at this point as well as so many others through these long years." ,

The duty of electing a successor to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Gannon devolves upon the Alumni Council and action in this regard will be taken at the June meeting of the Council.