Alumni Council Meets

THE ANNUAL FALL MEETING of the Alumni Council in New York on November 7 was featured by the nomination of two Alumni Trustees and by an informal talk on College affairs by President Hopkins. In his appearance before the Council, Mr. Hopkins discussed at some length his philosophy of organization within the College, and keyed his remarks to the impending election of two new Trustees to fill present vacancies on the Board.

The middle point in the classes of living alumni is 1928, the President pointed out, whereas the present membership of the Dartmouth Board of trustees is not representative of any class later than 1916. About 80 per cent of the Dartmouth alumni body has graduated during the past 25 years and this large group of alumni deserves representation on the Board, he told the Council. The two Alumni Trustee vacancies at the present time and another occurring in June, when Philip S. Marden '94 ends his second five-year term, provide an unusual opportunity to add the leaven of youthful members to the Board, he added.

TRUSTEE CANDIDATES NUMEROUS

In his remarks Mr. Hopkins spoke of the wealth of good Trustee material in the alumni body, both among older and younger age groups. He spoke of the natural tendency of members of corporations, boards of directors and trustees to fill vacancies by election of contemporaries with whose distinguished careers they are entirely familiar. He wished, he said, to avoid perpetuation of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees within any one age group even though this means the loss of the services of men of outstanding abilities and qualifications. There could be no question, he asserted, that excellent Trustee material existed in abundance among the younger alumni.

Prior to President Hopkins' talk the Alumni Council had presented gifts to him and Mrs. Hopkins in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his administration. This part of the program took place at the close of the Council's luncheon at the Dartmouth College Club and was attended by New York reporters. The full program of the day's meetings began with breakfast conferences of Council committees. The first general session began at 10, with Sigurd S. Larmon '14 presiding, and with the following members present:

George G. Clark '99, Plymouth, N. H.; Edward K. Robinson '04, Boston; Francis L. Childs '06, Hanover; Charles G. Milham '06, Williamsburg, Va.; Philip H. Chase '07, Philadelphia; Thomas A. Foster '10, Portland, Maine; Harold P. Hinman '10, Canaan, N. H.; Edward Stafford '11, Washington, D. C.; Henry E. Atwood '13, Minneapolis; Thomas D. Cunningham '13, Denver; Warde Wilkins '13, Boston; Sigurd S. Larmon '14, New York; Harvey P. Hood II '18, Boston; Edward E. Martin '19, New York; Robert M. Stecher '19, Cleveland; J. William Embree Jr. '21, Chicago; Robert P. Booth '22, Manchester, N. H.; John E. Foster '23, New York; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; Clark Weymouth '26, Rochester, N. Y.; William R. Abbott Jr. '27, Chicago; and Walter D. Douglas '31, Los Angeles.

Former members present at the New York meeting last month were:

Robert L. Burnap '94, Chicago; Guy C. Richards '96, Salem, Mass.; Frederic H. Leggett '98, New York; Joseph W. Gannon '99, New York; Clarence G. McDavitt '00, Newtonville, Mass.; Ernest M. Hopkins '01, Hanover; Arthur H. Ruggles '02, Providence, R. I.; Morton B. French '03, New York; Carl F. Woods '04, Boston; William J. Minsch '07, New York; Chauncey B. Baxter '10, Tacoma, Wash.; Warren C. Agry '11, New York;" George M. Morris '11, Washington, D. C.; John Pearson '11, Hanover; Wright Hugus '13, Wheeling, W. Va.; Sumner B. Emerson '17, New York; John W. Hubbell '21, New York; Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23, Hanover; and Ford H. Whelden '25, Detroit.

Six REGULAR REPORTS HEARD

Regular committee reports were made by the following members of the Council in behalf of their respective committees: Alumni Projects, Mr. Childs; Class Organization, Mr. Hinman (in the absence of Mr. Baldwin); Vocational Committee, Mr. Embree; Parents Committee, Mr. Abbott; Alumni Fund, Mr. Hood; and Class Gifts, Mr. Martin.

Two officers of the Dartmouth Club, Sidney J. Flanigan '23, secretary, and Otto Taylor '10, treasurer, were guests of the Council during discussion of the organization of the Dartmouth alumni in the New York metropolitan area. Carl F. Woods '04, chairman of the Dartmouth Athletic Council, and William H. McCarter '19, Director of Athletics, were guest speakers.

At the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Larmon called for the report of the nominating committee on selection of new Trustees. The report is published in full in an adjoining column. The following resolutions were adopted by the Council:

RESOLVED: That the Council, in recognition of the outstanding achievement of those responsible for the planning and conduct of the Ernest Martin Hopkins Anniversary Campaign of the Alumni Fund in prompting such a magnificent response by alumni and friends of Dartmouth, express grateful appreciation to Harvey P. Hood 2nd, 1918, Chairman, and Albert I. Dickerson, 1930; Secretary of the Alumni Fund Committee, and to each of their associates on that Committee, for their part in this accomplishment; and further, that the Council express to Harvey P. Hood and and Albert I. Dickerson its confidence in their leadership of the Alumni Fund Campaign for the year 1942.

WHEREAS, Clarence Belden Little, of the class of 1881, died in St. Paul, Minn., on September 25, 1941, and

WHEREAS, he was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, in the founding of which he was instrumental, from its inception in 1913 to 1920, and its President from 1915.10 1920, a Life Trustee of the College since 1921, and for many years an outstanding representative of Dartmouth in the Northwest, and

WHEREAS, he attained distinction in his community, where he has been a prominent and respected citizen for over half a century.

Now THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that in his honor there be recorded in the minutes of this meeting this evidence of our respect and esteem.

WHEREAS, James Albert Vaughan, of the class of 1905, died in Minneapolis, Minn., on August 5, 1941, and

WHEREAS, he was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1916 to 1922, active throughout his life in Dartmouth affairs, and one of the outstanding Dartmouth men in the Northwest, prominent in his community because of his many interests and his civic consciousness, and well liked everywhere because of his outstanding integrity and unusual friendliness,

Now THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that this expression of our esteem be recorded in the minutes of this meeting as a tribute to his memory.

ALUMNI COUNCIL PRESENTS ANNIVERSARY GIFTSIn commemoration of President Hopkins' now-famous 25th anniversary as head of Dart-mouth, the Alumni Council at its annual fall meeting in New York on November 7 pre-sented him with a wrist watch and traveling bag and also remembered Mrs. Hopkins witha silver table centerpiece. Sigurd S. Larmon 'l4, president of the Council, is shown mak-ing the presentation at the Dartmouth College Club.