Thayer School Report

PRESIDENT OF THAYER SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS REPORTS ON RESULTS OF NEW PLAN FOR FUND

In the year closing June 30, 1938, 321 Thayer School and Thayer Society men contributed $6,064.82 to the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund. Of this amount, $2,400 was allotted to the Thayer School by the Alumni Council in carrying out the arrangements between the Council and the Thayer Society for the merger of the Fletcher Fund into the Alumni Fund.

Consolidation of the Fletcher Fund into the Alumni Fund, while a desirable experimental change in policy, has resulted in diminution of total amounts contributed by Thayer School and Thayer Society men, although under the arrangements made with the Alumni Council for the merger, Thayer School has come out advantageously and the Alumni Fund has suffered the disadvantage.

In 1937 when the funds were administered separately 192 men gave $2,233 to the Fletcher Fund while 308 Thayer School men gave $4,711 to the Alumni Fund, totaling a gross $6,944. In 1938 under the consolidation plan total gifts amounted to $6,064 or roughly $9OO less than in 1937. Despite this reduction the Thayer School's allotment of $2,400 exceeded the 1937 Fletcher Fund's total and the Thayer Society was relieved of the necessity of conducting a separate solicitation.

We wish to express our appreciation to the Alumni Council for their fairness in determining the allotment to the Thayer School, in the face of reduced contributions.

The Executive Committee wishes to thank all the members for their continued loyal support. We sincerely hope, however, that all Thayer men will endeavor in the coming campaign to approximate in their gifts the combined amounts of their former separate contributions, so that there may be no further retrogression.

We have a new building, excellently equipped, and a faculty which we believe to be second to none. Under the system of engineering education established by Professor Fletcher, with small enrollment and tutorial instruction, the success of its graduates has thoroughly proven its validity and preeminence among other schools.

Although the Trustees' provision for a new building may bring larger enrollment and thus increased financial resources, it is incumbent upon us to increase our efforts in providing the needed support of loyal alumni, on the basis of which the Thayer School may become an increasingly greater civil engineering school and an enduring asset to Dartmouth College.

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