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Council Elections

April 1940
Article
Council Elections
April 1940

THE SECRETARY of the General Association of Alumni, Sidney C. Hayward '26, announces the results of nominations for filling vacancies on the Alumni Council at the expiration of several terms of office on June 30. Nominations closed March 10.

Of the six districts of the country with representation of three men each on the Council, there will be an election by mail ballot in District II only. The contest exists between the candidacies of Frank H. Eastman '06 of Harrisburg, Pa., Leslie W. Snow '12 of New York City, and Walter B. Humphrey '14 of New Rochelle, N. Y. In President Hopkins shown presenting theIrving Thalberg Award to David O. Selznick, producer of Gone With the Wind, atthe banquet of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences on February 29.Dartmouth's motion picture course is alsoa memorial to the late Mr. Thalberg.

each case the local alumni association submitted nomination papers for the nominees listed above. Mail ballot will be sent later to all graduates of the College living in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The poll will close June 10 and the winner in the election contest will be announced at Commencement.

There are four cases of reelection of present incumbents. These cases in which there are no contests are: District I (New England States) Dr. Thomas A. Foster '10 of Portland, Me.; District 111 (Central States) William R. Abbott '27 of Chicago; District V (Southern States) A. Pollack Boyd '22 of Chattanooga; and District VI (Rocky Mountain and Pacific States) Dr. Thomas D. Cunningham '13 of Denver.

In the case of District IV (Middlewestern States) Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis has been nominated by several of the alumni clubs in the district and is not opposed for election to his first term. He is therefore declared elected to the Council for a first term of three years beginning in June.

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