Renomination of Trustee

AT THE MEETING of the Alumni Council in Boston, October 25, Arthur H. Ruggles '03 of Providence, R. I., was nominated as Alumni Trustee for a second term of five years beginning June, 1941. At that time Dr. Ruggles will have completed his first full term of five years. The nomination of Dr. Ruggles will go to the Board of Trustees for action at their June meeting. According to traditional procedure, Dr. Ruggles, 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 Superintendent of Butler Hospital in Providence, Professor of Psychology at Brown University, and one of the most eminent of American psychiatrists. He is president of the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of numerous medical and psychiatric societies. Some years ago he was consultant in Mental Hygiene at Dartmouth and held a similar position ~at Yale. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1902, he received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1906, an M. A. degree from Dartmouth in 1909, and honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from Dartmouth in 1926 and from Brown in 1929. His son. Arthur H. Ruggles Jr., is a member of the Class of 1937. Dr. Ruggles was formerly a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

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 fox 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 February 1, 1941. Papers should be sent to Sidney C. Hayward, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.