Alumni Trustee

At the meeting of the Alumni Council on November 20, Philip S. Marden '94, of Lowell, Mass., was placed in nomination as Alumni Trustee to succeed himself. Mr. Marden's first term of five years will expire in June. His nomination now goes to the Board of Trustees who will act upon it at their meeting in June. According to customary procedure, Mr. Marden, as the Council nominee in behalf of the alumni, will be elected unless other nominations are made as outlined below.

Mr. Marden was born in Lowell, January 12, 1874. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1894 and achieved membership in Phi Beta Kappa during his undergraduate course. He was awarded the LL. B. by Harvard in 1898. In 1914 Dartmouth honored him with the Masters of Arts degree. He was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council 1923-32 by virtue of his position as chairman of the executive committee of the General Alumni Association. Mr. Marden also served for years as a member of the board of editors of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, having first devoted his editorial abilities to the MAGAZINE in 1920.

Outside Dartmouth circles he is widely known as editor of the Lowell CourierCitizen, a position he has held since 1902. He is even more widely known as author of travel books describing his experiences as a voyager in Mediterranean lands and Southern seas. He has written: "Greece and the Aegean Islands," 1907; "Travels in Spain," 1909; "Egyptian Days," 1912; "Sailing South," 1921; "Detours: Passable but Unsafe," 1925; "A Wayfarer in Portugal," 1927.

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 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 ALUMNIMAGAZINE, 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 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 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 alumnuscandidate of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."

According to this constitutional provision further nominations by petition may be made until March 1, 1937. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.