Alumni Trustee Nominated

At the recent meeting of the Alumni Council, Edward S. French '06 of Boston was placed in nomination as Alumni Trustee to succeed Edward W. Knight '87 whose second term of five years will expire June 30, 1935- This nomination now goes to the Trustees who will act upon it at their meeting in June, at which time Mr. French will be elected unless other nominations are made as outlined below.

The nominee is a graduate of the College in the class of 1906. He has been engaged in railroad executive work since 1908 when he became general manager of the White River Railroad, in 1920 being made president of the same organization. He has since that time been the head of several independent Northern New England railroads; and in April 1930 was chosen president of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Mr. French has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Association of American Railroads.

Mr. French is president of the Boston Alumni Association and has continually demonstrated since his graduation from College his concern for the welfare of the College, having been of assistance to the Administration and to alumni groups at many times.

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, 1935. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Edward S. French '06 Nominated by Alumni Council to succeed Edward W. Knight '87 as Alumni Trustee.