PROPOSED CHANGES IN COUNCIL CONSTITUTION
To the Editor of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Dear Sir:—
At the annual meeting of the Association of the Alumni of Dartmouth College in June, 1924, a committee, appointed the previous year of which Judge Charles M. Hough, '79, was chairman, proposed several amendments to the constitution of the Council of the Alumni of Dartmouth College.
The proposed amendments to the constitution of the Association were adopted at that meeting, but those to the constitution of the Council were put over for consideration and action, according to the requirement of its constitution, to the annual meeting of 1925, and a committee of three was appointed to see that the amendments should be properly presented at that meeting.
The constitution of the Council requires that any proposed amendment "shall have been stated in full either by mail to each member of the Association or published in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE—not less than a month before the date upon which the amendment is to be considered."
The committee prefers the second method of notifying the Alumni and therefore asks you to insert the proposed amendments in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in such issue as shall meet the requirement of the constitution as to time. The existing requirements of the constitution and the proposed amendments, which affect only Sections 1 and 3 of Article V, are given below.
Very truly yours, John K. Lord '68 John Abbott '91 Lafayette R. Chamberlain '05 Committee
Section 1 of the constitution now reads as fol- lows : "Sec. 1 Any member of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College shall be eligible to nominate and to vote for mem- bers of this Council and to membership therein." The amendment prdposes to insert after the words, "Dartmouth College," the words, "be- ing an alumnus of not less than three years standing," so that the section shall read as fol- lows : "Sec. 1 Any member of the Association of Alumni of. Dartmouth College, being an alumnus of not less than three years stand- ing, shall be eligible to nominate and to vote for members of this Council and to membership therein."
Section 3 now reads as follows: "Sec. 3 Nominations for members of this Council from the above described groups of states shall be made by nomination papers. Such papers must bear the signatures of at least twenty-five alumni, resident in the group of states which the nominee seeks to represent. Such papers must be filed with the secretary of the Alumni Association of Dartmouth College on or before February Ist. He shall then prepare a ballot giving names and residences of all nominees, divided into groups as above, and shall send this ballot to the alumni at large, who may thereupon vote for one member from each of said groups of states for a term of three years; each alumnus thus having the right to vote for five members of this Council annually. The polls shall close on June tenth.
"The nominee in each group receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected to membership in this Council, and the result of the vote shall be announced at the annual meeting of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College."
For the above section the proposed amendment substitutes the following: "Sec. 3 Nominations for members of this council from the above described groups of states shall be made as follows: "Before January 15 of each year the secretary of the Alumni Association of Dartmouth College shall notify each alumnus entitled to vote of the number of elective members of the Council for his group of states whose terms will expire on the ensuing first of July.
"Such notice shall give the names of the council member or members holding office until said first of July, state whether any such sitting member is eligible for reelection, and request the alumnus receiving notice to nominate one candidate for each vacancy to arise on July first. Alumni nominated must reside within the group of states within which the nominating alumnus has his residence.
"Nominations made in response to such notices, and received by said secretary of the Alumni Association on or before March Ist of each year, shall be by him examined, and the three men whose names are found most frequently mentioned for nomination, shall be nominees. If two or more men are proposed by the same number of voters, and that number is third in order, the third nominee shall be chosen by lot from the names suggested by the same number of voters.
"The said secretary shall then as soon as practicable after March Ist in each year prepare ballots, one for each group of states, giving the names and residences of nominees for that group, and send a ballot for his own group to each alumnus entitled to vote. The polls shall close on June 10th in each year.
"The nominee in each group receiving the largest number of votes cast by qualified alumni residing in said groups of states shall be elected to membership in this. Council, and the result of the vote shall, be announced at the annual meeting of the: Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College."
