FRED A. HOWLAND '87 NOMINATED ALUMNI TRUSTEE

At the recent meeting of the Alumni Council held in Boston the name of Fred A. Howland '87 was placed in nomination as alumni trustee, to succeed himself at the expiration of his term of office in June, 1927.

Mr. Howland is a native of Franconia, New Hampshire, but during his active life has been closely associated with business and public affairs in the state of Vermont.

Graduating from Dartmouth in 1887 he studied law with the Honorable W. P. Dillingham at Waterbury, Vermont, and from 1892-1903 was a member of the firm of Dillingham, Huse, and Howland. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1896, states attorney for Washington County, Vermont, from 1896-98, and secretary of the State of Vermont from 1898-1902. From 1903-09 he was council for the National Life Insurance Company, vicepresident of the same from 1909-16, and president since January, 1916.

He was chairman of the committee to revise the banking laws of Vermont in 1910 and has served as a member of the Vermont State Board of Education.

From 1913-19 he was a member of the Alumni Council and for the years 1913-18, the chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the College since 1922. ,

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association the responsibility of nominating alumni 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 1927. All papers should be sent to Eugene F. Clark, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, N. H.