Trustee Nominated

At the meeting of the Alumni Council held in New York October 38, the name of Victor M. Cutter '03 of Boston, Massachusetts, was placed in nomination as alumni trustee to succeed Charles G. DuBois '91 at the expiration of Mr. DuBois' second term of office in June, 1933. At that time Mr. DuBois becomes ineligible for further service as alumni trustee, having held two terms of five years each.

Mr. Cutter was born in Dracut, Mass., September 2, 1881. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1903 and the following year was awarded the degree of Master of Commercial Science. He was one of the first graduates of the Tuck School and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He early became connected with the United Fruit Company, going to Central America where he learned the business first as time keeper and then through gradual promotion as head of important holdings of the company in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras. In 1915 he was advanced to the position of general mahager of the Central and South America Department of the Company and in 1917 he was made vice-president in charge of tropic divisions with headquarters in Boston. He succeeded A. W. Preston to the presidency of United Fruit Company in 1924.

No less successful and active has Mr. Cutter been in Dartmouth affairs than does his record indicate him to have been in business. He was elected to the Alumni Council in 1924 as one of the three members from the New England States. He was reelected for a second term in 1927. The following year he was chosen president of the Council, a position held by him until his retirement in 1930 at the expiration of his second successive term. Mr. Cutter was elected president of the General Association of Alumni of the College at the Commencement Luncheon at Hanover last June. In discharging his duties as head of the alumni he will preside at the luncheon to be held during Commencement in June.

According to the constitutional provisions of the alumni association the responsibility for 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, notless than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominatealumni trustee or trustees to take office onthe first Monday after Commencement.

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any onehundred alumni qualified to vote for theCouncil of Alumni may file with the saidsecretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualifiedalumnus for the office of alumni trustee.Said secretary shall, as soon as practicableafter expiry of the period for nominationby petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote an official ballot containing thename of the alumnus nominated by theCouncil for the office of trustee and thename or names of candidates nominatedby petition, as aforesaid. No voting byproxy shall be allowed in voting foralumni trustees, and the polls shall closeon June 10 before Commencement.

"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting fortrustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate of the alumni for the office oftrustee."

According to this constitutional provision further nominations by petition may be made until March 1, 1933. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.