Vermont

OSMER C. FITTS of Brattleboro was elected president of the Vermont Alumni Association of Dartmouth College at the annual meeting of that organization held at the Pavilion hotel, Montpelier, Nov. 6. Fifty-four men attended. Fitts, class of 1926, succeeds Hubert E. Sargent '15 of Montpelier.

Other officers elected were: First vice president, Arthur L. Graves '09, St. Johnsbury; second vice president, Joseph T. Smith '06, Burlington; third vice president, John Willson '40, St. Albans; secretary, Lester E. Richwagen '23, Barre; treasurer, Bancroft Dwinell '37, Montpelier.

Edward T. Chamberlain Jr., assistant to the dean of freshmen, was the principal speaker, telling of the admissions system and the college policy in handling freshmen.

The Dartmouth alumni sent a telegram to President Ernest M. Hopkins pledging continued loyalty to the College and adopted a resolution expressing appreciation for the work of Lewis Parkhurst '78, upon his resignation as trustee of the College after many years of service.

The nominating committee consisted of Charles Crane of Montpelier, William M. Lyons of Barre and Spencer Norton of Vergennes.

It was planned to hold a spring meeting next year at a southern point in the state and a fall meeting in the northern area on Dartmouth Night in the fall.

The resolution adopted on motion of Fred A. Howland, former trustee, in tribute to Mr. Parkhurst, follows: "The members of the Vermont Alumni Association of Dartmouth College assembled at Montpelier on Dartmouth Night send greetings to Lewis Parkhurst, and express their deep regret that he should feel that advanced years justify his resignation from the Board of Trustees of the College.

"The Vermont alumni naturally feel an interest in Mr. Parkhurst because of his long-continued contribution to the prosperity of the town of Weston; but recall with special satisfaction that in his early schoolmaster days in our State he not only taught our young ideas how to shoot and smoothed the way toward financing his college expense, but here found the noble helpmeet who has shared with him his af fection for and devotion to the welfare of Dartmouth.

"We feel that in the unremitting exercise of a devoted, wise and far-seeing judgment regarding the educational, the administrative and financial affairs of the College over a period of thirty-four years as Trustee, Mr. Parkhurst has exercised an influence on college affairs which in its favorable results has rarely been equalled. "We extend to Mr. Parkhurst our hearty felicitations on this honorable and remarkable record, and wish for him and Mrs. Parkhurst the happy years to which they are richly entitled."