Alumni Trustee
At the meeting of the Alumni Council on October 22, William J. Minsch '07 of Montclair, N. J., was placed in nomination as Alumni Trustee for a first term of five years, to begin in June, 1938. At that time Mr. Minsch will have served out the
unexpired term of one year of Victor M. Cutter '03, who was elected a life trustee last spring. The nomination of Mr. Minsch will go to the Board of Trustees for action in June. According to customary procedure, Mr. Minsch, as the nominee of the Council in behalf of all the alumni, will be elected unless other nominations are made as outlined below.
Mr. Minsch is head of the investment banking firm of Minsch, Monell, & Co. of New York City. He has been prominent in Dartmouth affairs for many years as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York, as a member of the Alumni Council, as chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee, and most recently as director of the special gifts and endowment project which he heads for the Alumni Council. Mr. Minsch was graduated from Dart- mouth in 1907, and in the following year received his M. C.S. degree from Tuck School. From a position with the United Fruit Company of Guatemala he turned to the bond firm of Lee, Higginson and Company, and was soon made sales manager, and in 1920 set up his own firm. He is a director of Gorman Company and has served as president of the Bond Club of New York. His son, William J. Minsch Jr. is a memebr of the class of 1936.
According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni CouncilProvision 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 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 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 forAlumni Trustees, and the polls shall closeon June 10 before Commencement.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, 710 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, 1938. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.
