Beware of Imposters

Alumni of the College are again warned against imposters and various "rackets" worked at the expense of college men from time to time. A comparatively new "racket" is that of the photographer who calls on alumni stating that he has been authorized by alumni headquarters in Hanover to take pictures of all Dartmouth men. He makes a number of pictures, submits proofs, and sells finished photographs to the victim on the basis that one of these will be sent to Hanover where a print is needed for alumni records files.

The fact is that no photographer has been assigned such a privilege by the College or any of its official alumni groups. In some cases a similar arrangement has been encouraged where photographs of certain alumni are desired, but this has not been done on a large scale.

The imposter business crops up occasionally when alumni report that someone posing as an impoverished classmate of a Dartmouth son of the family, as a former teacher in the College, or as a boy "working his way through," has shown up with a hard-luck story. In almost all cases of this sort that have been investigated, the Dartmouth connection proves to be pure fabrication.

HISTORIC CHAIR President Hopkins seated in the EleazarWheelock study chair which was presentedto the College last June by WilliamChauncy Langdon, a direct descendant ofDartmouth's first president. Standing areMr. Langdon (left) and Lewis Parkhurst '78,senior member of the Board of Trustees.