Trustees Nominated

EXPRESSING, THROUGH ITS nominating committee, the belief that younger alumni should be represented on the Board of Trustees of the College, the Alumni Council at its annual fall meeting on November 7 named Harvey P. Hood II '18 of Cambridge, Mass., and Dudley W. Orr '29 of Concord, N. H., as its nominees for the two Alumni Trustee vacancies now existent on the Board.

Mr. Hood, president of the Boston dairyproducts firm of H. P. Hood and Sons, was nominated to fill the unexpired term, four years remaining, of Edward S. French '06, recently elected a Life Trustee; and Mr. Orr, lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire, was named to fill the unexpired term, three years remain- ing, of William W. Grant '03, who also was recently elevated to a Life Trusteeship. In accordance with the charter requirement that five members of the Dartmouth Board be residents of New Hampshire, Mr. Orr's nomination was made also in order to fill the New Hampshire vacancy created by the death of Col. C. B. Little '81, who maintained his legal residence in Pembroke, N. H.

It is expected that Trustee action on the Alumni Council nominations will be taken in the near future, without delaying until the next regular meeting of the Board in April.

The nominations of Mr. Hood and Mr. Orr were brought in by an Alumni Council committee headed by Warde Wilkins '13 and including George G. Clark '99, Edward K. Robinson '04, Harold P. Hinman 10, and Sidney C. Hayward '26. The recommendations of the nominating committee were prefaced by a statement on the advisability of selecting new Board members from among the younger alumni, who would assure a continuity of experience in the direction of Dartmouth affairs. This statement was as follows:

"The selection of two nominees to fillvacancies on the Board of Trustees hasbeen difficult—not because of a scarcity ofcompetent candidates among the alumni,but because of the very large number ofwell-qualified individuals. There are many,especially in the classes that were graduatedfrom about 25 to 40 years ago, who throughlong service in numerous alumni capacitieshave maintained a current familiarity withDartmouth affairs and who in the normalcourse of events might be expected to undertake the duties of Trusteeship at thistime.

"However, an examination of the personnel of the present Board reveals that ofthe eight members who have some years ofservice ahead, seven are from classes between 1901 and 1907 inclusive. If moreTrustees are chosen from about this sameage group, there will come a time whenduring a period of but a few years, the personnel of nearly the whole Board mightbe changed. To forestall the future possibility that the College might be governedby a Board largely composed of Trusteesof little experience seems to be a paramount consideration at this time. Furthermore, it is only reasonable that there shouldbe representation of younger alumni on theBoard, if younger alumni of sufficient competence can be found. A review of theyounger group of alumni reveals numbersof men of Trustee caliber."

Mr. Hood is a member of the Alumni Council and this past year was chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee which di rected the most successful Fund campaign in the history of the College. He was formerly president of the Boston Alumni Association and is president of the Class of 1918. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, he attended the Harvard Business School in 1919-20 and two years later became treasurer and a director of H. P. Hood and Sons. He has been president of that large New England firm since 1936.

He was formerly president of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, and is now a director of the Second National Bank of Boston, a trustee of the Avon Home in Cambridge, and a director of the Boys' Clubs of Boston. He was married in 1928 to Miss Barbara Ellen Churchill of Milton, Mass., and has a son, Charles Harvey Hood 11, and two daughters, Helen Olivia and Barbara Ellen Churchill Hood.

Mr. Orr, who is one of the youngest Trustee nominees in many years, is at present a member of the New Hampshire State Tax Commission, in addition to carrying on the private practice of law in Concord, N. H. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1929, he studied for a year at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France and then took up his law studies at Harvard University, where he obtained his LL.B. in 1933. He was with the Manchester firm of McLane, Davis and Carleton for two years, and in 1935 became Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire. He resigned that post in 1937 to accept appointment to the state tax commission and to take up private practice.

Mr. Orr has been active in the Republican Party in New Hampshire, and also has served as secretary of the Governor's Committee on Unemployment Reserves and as a member of the New Hampshire Planning Board. He is a director of the Northern Railroad and of the Mechanicks National Bank, and is a trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank. He was married in 1935 to Miss Florence-Gene Ward of Lynn, Mass., and has one daughter, Marjorie Hall Orr.

DUDLEY W. ORR '29 Nominated by the Alumni Council to fillthe unexpired term of William W. Grant'O3 as Alumni Trustee of the College.

HARVEY P. HOOD II 'lBNominee of the Alumni Council to serveas Alumni Trustee, filling unexpired termof Edward S. French 'O6.