Trustee Nominated

AT THE MEETING of the Alumni Council -in Boston, October 21, William W. Grant '03 of Denver was nominated as alumni trustee for a second full term of five years to begin June, 1939. At that time Mr. Grant will have completed his first full term of five years. The nomination of Mr. Grant will go to the Board of Trustees for action in June. According to traditional procedure Mr. Grant as the nominee of the Alumni Council acting for the alumni body will be elected unless other nominations are made as outlined below.

The nominee is a graduate of the College in 1903. He received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1906 and has since practiced law in Denver. Mr. Grant served as member of the Alumni Council from 1925 to 1931. He has been active in Dartmouth affairs in the Rocky Mountain section of the country and is now a trustee of the Colorado-Dartmouth Scholarship Fund. Two sons have graduated from Dartmouth, Edwin H. '30 and William W. Jr. '31

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 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, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."

According to this constitutional provision further nominations by petition may be made until March 1, 1939. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.