Life Trustees Elected
The election of Victor M. Cutter '03 and Dr. John F. Gile '16 as life trustees of the College and the election of Prof. Herluf V. Olsen '22 as Dean of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance were major items of business enacted by the Board of Trustees at its annual spring meeting on April 9.
A number of new appointments were also made, among them the appointment of Robert D. Funkhouser '27 of Dayton, Ohio, to the post of Assistant Bursar, the second such on the financial staff of the College, and the appointment of Alexander K. Laing '25 of Hanover to the post of Assistant Librarian, filling the vacancy left by William H. McCarter '19 when he resigned to become Director of Athletics. Four other appointments were voted and Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded to twelve men.
Mr. Cutter, who has been an alumni trustee of the College since 1933, and Dr. Gile, a member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty since 1923, were elected life trustees to fill the vacancies left by the late Henry B. Thayer '79 and the late William R. Gray '04. Dean Olsen, a member of the Tuck School faculty since 1929 and acting dean of the business school during the past few months, succeeds Dean Gray, who died on March 31 after a long illness. The additional position of Assistant Bursar, to be filled by Mr. Funkhouser, was established by the Trustees in order to enable the financial department of the College to expand into fields where more work of an accounting nature is desirable.
In addition to Mr. Funkhouser and Mr. Laing, the new appointments to the faculty for 1937-38 include those of Richard E. Stoiber '32 as instructor in Geology, Paul B. Welldon '37 as instructor in Chemistry, George V. Bohman as instructor in Public Speaking, and Henry B. Williams as instructor in English, in addition to his present appointment as Assistant Director of the Players.
Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded as follows:
As with the Class of 1933—Paul C. Cleaves.
As with the Class of 1934—Harold R. Green.
As with the Class of 1935—Lewis H. Kirchhofer.
As with the Class of 1936—Harry S. Carter, MacGregor H. Hill, Tino Lando, Robert G. Lewis, Edwin J. Nilsson, Norman P. Scott, Harvey J. Sevigny, Elmer B. Thomas 3d, and George L. Tillinghast Jr.
Mr. Cutter, new life trustee of the College, was formerly president and chairman of the board of the United Fruit Company. Now retired, he makes his home in Newton, Mass., and New London, N. H. He is chairman of the New England Planning Board, charged with the long-time plan of developing New England's rivers, forests and parks, and is state chairman for New Hampshire on the New England Council. He is a member of the corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has a son, Victor M. Jr., in the present junior class at Dartmouth.
Dr. Gile, other newly elected life trustee, is instructor in Anatomy at the Dartmouth Medical School and is one of the ranking physicians and surgeons on the staff of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. After receiving his medical degree at Harvard in 1920, he joined the Dartmouth Medical School faculty in 1923 as part-time instructor in Anatomy, was named instructor in Physical Diagnosis in 1925, and in 1934 was appointed to his present position of instructor in Anatomy. He is a member of a well-known Dartmouth family, the son of the late Dr. John M. Gile '87, who was dean of the Medical School and a Trustee of the College from 1912 to 1925, and the brother of Archie B. Gile '17. He is one of the ranking surgeons in New England and belongs to numerous national and state medical societies.
BECOMES DEAN AT 37
Dean Olsen, who becomes the head of Tuck School at the age of 37, has been assistant professor of Business Statistics at the Tuck School since 1929. Born in Omaha, Neb., he graduated from Dartmouth in igas, did graduate work and taught Economics at the University of Chicago until 1925, and for four years taught Economics at the University of Delaware before joining the Tuck School faculty. He was made assistant dean of the business school in 1930, and during the recent fatal illness of Dean Gray acted as head of the school.
Mr. Funkhouser, the new assistant bursar, received his A. B. degree from Dartmouth in 1927 and his M.C.S. degree from Tuck School in the following year. Since that time he has been associated with General Motors, for one year in the Dealer Accountant Department, for one year in the Field Accounting Department of the Frigidaire Division, and for the remaining eight years in the office of the General Accountant of the Frigidaire Division, where he now holds the title of Assistant General Accountant. He is expected to assume his new college duties at the end of the current fiscal year.
Mr. Laing, the new assistant librarian, is one of Dartmouth's best known literary figures. He is author of Hanover Poems (with Richard Lattimore, 1927), Fool'sErrand (1928), End of Roaming (1928), The Sea Witch (1933), The Cadaver ofGideon Wyck (1934), Wine atid Physic (1934), The Motives of Nicholas Holti (1936) and Dr. Scarlett (1936). He recently edited The Life and Adventures of JohnNicol, Mariner and The Haunted Omnibus. Mr. Laing was appointed tutorial adviser in the English Department in 1930 and four years later received a Guggenheim Fellowship which enabled him to spend a year abroad in writing and study. He originally entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1925, but after dropping out of college for a number of years received his A.B. degree in 1933.
VICTOR M. CUTTER '03 Who has been made a Life Trustee of theCollege.
DR. JOHN F. GILE '16Newly elected Life Trustee of the College.
LATE ALBERT O. BROWN '78 Former Governor of New Hampshire, whodied at his home in Manchester, N. H., onMarch 28. He was a Trustee of the Collegefor 20 years, from 1911 to 1931. (See Necrology section.)
