Alumni Dinners

Several alumni dinners were held throughout the country during March. President Hopkins, Prof. Charles R. Lingley, Prof. Charles E. Bolser and Prof. H. E. B. Speight represented the College at these annual meetings. The alumni of Boston and vicinity gathered at the Hotel Statler March 1 in record breaking numbers to hear President Hopkins and Professor Speight. Nearly 800 Dartmouth men attended the dinner. Professor Bolser spoke to the alumni of Buffalo, February 28. Professor Lingley visited the Milwaukee alumni February 24, the Minneapolis alumni February 25, the Omaha alumni February 27 and the alumni of Denver, March 1.

President Hopkins addressed the alumni of Pittsburg and vicinity March 5. He visited for the first time the Harrisburg association and was the principal guest and speaker at the annual dinner there March 7. He spoke to the alumni of Philadelphia March 8. President Hopkins was accompanied on the Pennsylvania trip by Sidney C. Hayward, secretary of the College.

ALUMNI FUND OPENS

Frederic H. Leggett '98, Chairman of the Alumni Fund, in an announcement which was mailed from Hanover to all Dartmouth men on March 10 formally opened the sixteenth annual campaign of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation. The objective for the year, as approved by the Alumni Council for collection by its fund-raising committee, is $135,000 or five thousand dollars more than was sought and contributed during 1928-1929.

In formulating its plans for the 1930 campaign, the Alumni Fund Committee after consultation with the Class Agents has decided to continue its policy, adopted last year, of shortening the period of activity and effecting economies wherever possible in order that the net . return to the College may be as large as possible. Seven mailings of the reminder type have been prepared for distribution to the non-contributors as the campaign progresses and these will serve as a background for the vital work which is done by the Class Agents.

During the fifteen years which the Alumni Fund has operated, Dartmouth men have contributed through it to the College over a million dollars. This total, and the fact that it represents an aggregate of more than fifty-one thousand separate gifts from almost ten thousand men, has placed the Dartmouth Fund in a prominent position in college and university alumni circles. Of the scores of institutions that seek annual gifts from their alumni but one can claim a larger number of contributors than the 5,683 who gave last year to the Dartmouth fund and no college or university has yet been able to achieve as high a percentage of contributors.

The Alumni Council's committee on the Alumni Fund for this year is: Frederick H. Leggett '98, chairman; Philip S. Marden '94, William W. Grant, Jr. '03, William J. Minsch '07, Richard Remsen '12, and Robert C. Strong '24, Executive Secretary.