Nomination of Trustee
At the recent meeting of the Alumni Council, William W. Grant 'O3 of Denver was placed in nomination as Alumni Trustee to succeed himself. Mr. Grant became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1931 when he was elected by the Council to take the place of J. R. McLane 'O7 who was chosen a Life Trustee at that time. This nomination now goes to the Trustees who will act upon it at their meeting in June, and Mr. Grant will then be elected to his first term of five years in his own right, unless other nominations are made as outlined below.
The nominee is a graduate of the College in the class of 1903. He received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1906 and has since practised law in Denver. Mr. Grant served as a member of the Alumni Council from 1925-31. He has been active in Dartmouth affairs in the Rocky Mountain section of the country. Two sons have graduated from Dartmouth: Edwin H. '3O and William W. Jr. '3l.
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 officeon 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 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 qualifiedto 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 for AlumniTrustees, and the polls shall close on June10 before Commencement.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees 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, 1934. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.
