Gifts Over 2 Millions
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS received by Dartmouth College during the fiscal year 1940-41 totaled $2,122,393, the second largest amount in the history of the College.
This total, second only to the $3,500,000 received in 1928-29, including additions of $1,846,998 to Dartmouth's endowment funds and gifts of $275,395 for current use and for the plant.
Two large bequests received upon the settlement of estates accounted for the greater part of the total announced by President Hopkins. The largest single benefaction was that of $1,208,691 from Justice William N. Cohen '79 of New York City, whose death occurred three years ago; and the second largest was that of $512,600 from Emil Bommer, Brooklyn manufacturer, who died in 1935. Net receipts of $177,906 from the record-breaking 1941 Alumni Fund also swelled the total.
OTHER MAJOR GIFTS LISTED
Other major gifts were $43,466 from the property of Alice Cheney Baltzell of Dover, Mass.; $37,000 by bequest of Julia L. Whittier of Southwest Harbor, Me., formerly of Hanover; $20,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for support of the work of the Dartmouth Eye Institute; $17,520 additional from the trustees of the estate of Jeanette I. Cummings of Washington, D. C., for the Horace S. Cummings Memorial; $15,786 from the Carnegie Foundation for retiring allowances; $13,000 from an anonymous donor; $11,550 from the trust established by Benjamin A. Kimball '54; $7,000 as a legacy from the late John D. Haskell '77 of Wakefield, Neb.; $6,935 additional from the estate of former Governor Albert O. Brown '78 of Manchester, N. H.; $6,700 additional from the estate of Frank E. Gove, '88 for the Colorado-Dartmouth Alumni Association Fund; $5,000 for the Class of 1879 Fund for the support of music, drama and belles lettres; $5,000 for the establishment of the Edward M. Chase Memorial Fund for prizes; and $4,000 for the Class of 1916 Fund.
Also included in the list of gifts for 1940-41 were $3,002 additional for the Thaddeus Stevens Memorial Loan Fund; $2,500 from Joseph L. Buttenweiser for scholarships; $2,486 additional from members of the Class of 1900 for the D.O.C.
House; $2,100 additional from the Chicago Alumni Association; $1,852 for the Class of 1917 Memorial Fund; $1,600 from Henry F. Lenning '37 for fine arts; $1,500 from an anonymous donor for the Class of 1926 Scholarship Fund; $1,260 additional for the Henry B. Dillenback Fund; $1,197 from Mrs. E. K. Hall for Dick s House; $1,102 from the Theodore C. Haffenreffer property; $1,000 additional for the John R. Eastman Fund; $1,000 for the Henry K.
Schoch Scholarship Fund; and $1,000 from the John H. Pearson Trust.
Dartmouth Night DARTMOUTH NIGHT this year will be celebrated on Thursday, November 6. The announcement was made by John de la Montagne '42 of White Plains, N. Y., president of Palaeopitus, after conference with President Hopkins. The Webster Hall celebration in Hanover comes during the height of the football season, two days before the game with Princeton at Princeton. Traditional gatherings of alumni groups throughout the country will be held on November 6. The program for the observance in Hanover will be announced soon by Palaeopitus.
