Trustee Renominated
AT THE MEETING of the Alumni Council in New York, November 3, Edward S. French '06 of Boston was nominated as alumni trustee for a second term of five years beginning June, 1940. At that time Mr. French will have completed his first full term of five years. The nomination of Mr. French will go to the Board of Trustees for action at their June meeting. According to traditional procedure, Mr. French, as nominee of the Alumni Council acting for the alumni body, will be elected by the Board unless other nominations are made as outlined below.
The nominee is a graduate of the College in the class of 1906. He has been engaged in railroad executive work since 1908 when he became general manager of the White River Railroad, in 1920 being made president of the same organization. He has since that time been the head of several independent Northern New England railroads; and in April 1930 was chosen president of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He has also been president of the Maine Central R. R. since 1932. He is a director of the Association of American Railroads, the National Life Insurance Co., Union Mutual Life Insurance Cos., Jones & Lamson Machine Cos., Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Rock of Ages Corporation, and the New England Public Service Corporation.
FORMER BOSTON ALUMNI HEAD
Mr. French is a past president of the Boston Alumni Association and has continually demonstrated since graduation from College his concern for the welfare of the College, having been of assistance to the administration and to alumni groups at many times.
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 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, 1940. All papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.
