President Hopkins Replies To Gift

Expresses "Solicitude and Responsibility" in Accepting Record Collection of Anniversary Fund Campaign

GIFTS FROM ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF . the College through the annual campaign of the Alumni Fund this year totaled $196,000. The Anniversary Campaign which ended June 30 celebrated the 35th year of President Hopkins' administration. Planning and operating the Dartmouth Alumni Fund is a responsibility of the Alumni Council whose president, Sigurd S. Larmon '14 of New York City, turned over the total collections to President Hopkins in the following letter:

Dear Dr. Hopkins:

Words cannot add to the tribute that has been paid to you by 10,800 Dartmouth Alumni and Dartmouth friends.

It is a tribute not only to what you have done for Dartmouth, but to you for the fine human being that you are. And it comes from the Dartmouth heart, for the relationship between you and Dartmouth folks has always been an intimate and personal one.

It is my privilege, on behalf of the Alumni Council to turn over to you the proceeds of the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

The campaign has been an inspired one, and represents an all-time high in number of givers, and in the amount collected. This sum of $196,000 is for use at your discretion in meeting the needs of the College.

Sincerely,

In answer to the letter from Mr. Larmon, President Hopkins wrote:

Dear Mr. Larmon

There is nothing in the world that could have been at once so much of an inspira- tion and at the same time so much of a breeder of humility as to have had the response made to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund that was made last spring. In expressing my deep sense of appreciation to you and to the Alumni Council I wish even as greatly to express appreciation to each individual among the 10,800 contributors to the Fund.

Needless to say I accept the $196,000 in behalf of the College with deep thankfulness, although without any capability of expressing either my personal or my official sense of obligation. A portion of it, approximately the same amount that we have utilized year by year in expanding the expenditures that we felt it legitimate to budget, has been so applied this year; namely, the amount necessary to meet operating expenses of the College and to eliminate any possibility of deficit $79,000, then to the Thayer School $2,900, and finally the balance of expense on Dartmouth Hall reconstruction $7,800. This latter item is a great source of satisfaction to me because it means that our oldest and most significant structural symbol of the College has been replaced and rebuilt wholly by alumni contributions. The balance of $BB,OOO, plus amounts to be received on payments of pledges of $8,000, is being held as reserve. This amount I am holding in the College treasury temporarily until it shall be possible after the opening of College to define just what are the greatest single needs of the College at this particular time when special and unforeseen needs develop almost daily.

In all of the solicitude which invariably attaches to the expenditure of any gift to the College can be added, in this particular case, so far as I am concerned, a solici- tude and a sense of responsibility greater than ever were engendered by any gift of a like amount. Entirely aside from the invaluable worth of the dollars themselves is the confidence in the future of the College shown in making it the recipient of such a mark of confidence and of eager interest in its affairs on the part of more than 10,000 of its alumni and friends.

Yours very sincerely,

PARENTS AND FRIENDS

In addition to the gift of 1178,000 from Dartmouth men, a total of about $18,000 was received from parents and other friends of the College. In expressing the appreciation of the Alumni Fund Committee to the class agents for their very successful efforts in behalf of the 1941 campaign, Harvey P. Hood II '18, chairman, said:

"Other colleges have long been envious of the efficiency, thoroughness and resourcefulness of Dartmouth's class agents. Now they are pop-eyed.

"Our campaign was built around two naturals, Ernest Martin Hopkins and Dartmouth. But it was our class agents and assistants who enthusiastically and conscientiously made sure that full advantage was taken of the opportunity that 1941 presented.

"More than ever before will it be realized that Dartmouth is to be congratulated for its class agents and their worthy assistants.—HAßVEY P. HOOD II."

ALUMNI COUNCIL PRESIDENT Sigurd S. Larmon '14, of New YorkCity, elected president of the Council in June succeeding Harold P.Hinman '10, who has turned over$196,000 to President Hopkins, received in the Anniversary Campaignof the 1941 Alumni Fund.

Comparison of 1940 and 1941 Alumni Funds IN COMPARING THE RESULTS of the Ernest Martin Hopkins Campaign of the Dart-mouth Alumni Fund with the record of last year, the table below shows the in-creased participation of alumni and the much larger total of collections in . Thepart played by non-graduates of the College is also presented by the Fund Committeein the following comparison:1941 1940 Number of contributors 10,624 10,136Graduates 9,160 8,780Non-graduates 1,464 x>356 Proportion of Contributors to Living Graduates 82% 81% Proportion of Contributors to All Living Alumni, in- cluding non-graduates 57% 55% Per Cent of Living Graduates Contributing 72% 7'% Per Cent of Living Non-Graduates Contributing 25% 24% Amount Received from Alumni $178,022.98"!" $126,255.90 t IDoes not include about $18,000 contributed by -parents and other friends of the College. Total figure in-cludes pledges up to November 1, totaling about $7,000.1