1936 Alumni Fund

With the holding of class agents' dinners in Chicago, New York and Boston, and with the mailing of the Fund report for last year, the stage has been set for the 1936 Alumni Fund campaign, which for the fourth successive year will be conducted on a "No Quota" basis. The Fund Committee's opening announcement, featuring a message from President Hopkins, will be mailed to more than 15,000 Dartmouth alumni around the first of May.

The opening announcement will be the only appeal from the Fund Committee itself, with the exception of a reminder just before the campaign closes on June 30. The class agents, once again, will undertake full responsibility for the Fund. As was the case last year, emphasis will be placed upon the number of alumni contributing rather than upon the amount of contributions.

Speakers at the annual Alumni Fund dinners in Chicago, New York, and Boston were President Hopkins; John W. Hubbell '21, chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee for the Alumni Council; and Albert I. Dickerson '30, executive secretary of the Committee. Other members of the Fund Committee are John C. Sterling '11, of New York City; Louis E. Leverone '04, of Chicago; Robert J. Holmes '09, of Boston; and William H. Bemis '18 of Cleveland.

DR. SEUSS GIVES DRAWINGS

Campaign material will again be featured by the cartoons of Theodor S. Geisel '25 (Dr. Seuss), who has contributed a number of drawings for use in the class agents' mailing pieces. Class agents this year have been provided with copies of the ClassAgents' Manual, devised and edited by Mr. Dickerson for the distribution of information about Alumni Fund procedures and of suggestions gathered from successful class agents.

In speaking at the Alumni Fund dinners, President Hopkins repeated the statement which he had frequently made in the past that the debt of the College to the class agents is an incalculable one. He mentioned a number of points at which the College has particular need of financial support at this time, and reiterated the fact that it could be truly stated that the money contributed through the Alumni Fund is applied at any one of a number of important points since the availability of these unrestricted funds released other income for application to various needs. Although the College deficit was erased by last year's Alumni Fund, particular need has arisen connection with the shrinkage of income from funds invested in bonds, the maintenance of the recreational and intramural programs by the College proper at an annual cost in excess of $30,000, and the reconstruction of Dartmouth Hall which has left the sum of $100,000 to be amortized.

Last year, total contributions of $84,957.19 were received from 6,805 alumni, the largest number of contributors in the history of the Fund. Dartmouth's record, the finest in the country, represented contributions by 67 per cent of the College's graduates, in contrast to the record of 54 per cent for the preceding year. The main objective of the 1936 campaign is to raise the percentage of contributors to a new high record.

Charles G. Milham 'O6 New member of the Alumni Council representing the South. His home is in Williamsburg, Va.