MORTON C. TUTTLE '97 NOMINATED ALUMNI TRUSTEE

At the recent meeting of the Alumni Council held in Chicago the name of Morton C. Tuttle '97 was placed in nomination as Alumni Trustee to succeed himself at the expiration of his term of office in June, 1926. Mr. Tuttle is completing the unexpired term of Harry H. Blunt '97 whose death occurred in December, 1923.

Mr. Tuttle is a native of Milford, N. H., holding the degrees of B.S. and honorary A.M. from Dartmouth. Subsequent to his graduation he studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was then until 1923 with the Aberthaw Construction Company for fifteen years as general manager. During the war he started the Emergency Committee on the War Industries Board serving on this Committee for a year, and then transferred to the Fleet Corporation as manager of the Production Division. He was later made manager of the Supply Division which was a consolidation of the Purchasing, Supply, Transportation and Storage departments. He was later assistant to the Director General.

Mr. Tuttle is now president of the Morton C. Tuttle Company, organized in 1923. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1913-1920, president of the Boston Alumni Association in 1920, and has been a trustee of Dartmouth College since 1924. He is permanent secretary of his class.

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association the responsibility of nominating trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by the alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this, feature is quoted herewith;

"Said secretary shall also give notice, not less than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominate alumni trustee or trustees to take office on the first Monday after Commencement.

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of alumni trustee. Said secretary shall as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition send to each alumnus qualified to vote an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for alumni trustees, and the polls shall close on June 10 before Commencement.

"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for trustee shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of trustee."

According to this constitutional provision further nominations by petition may be made until February, 1926. All papers should be sent to Eugene F. Clark, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, N. H.