Alumni Fund Makes Fine Start
Off to a flying start, the Hopkins Anniversary Campaign of the Alumni Fund has produced $66,000 in its first twenty days, and the steady climb of daily figures gives promise that the Fund Committee will achieve the record results on which it is counting as a tribute to President Hopkins' twentyfive years of Dartmouth leadership. Enthusiastic direction of the campaign has been assumed by the class agents, following the Fund Committee's opening booklet, and increased gifts have been predominant in the returns to date. In many cases, alumni who had made pre-campaign contributions immediately sent additional gifts when they learned that the 1941 Fund would honor President Hopkins.
The $66,000 figure of May 20 is well ahead of the total at the same time last year, even though gifts have been made by fewer contributors. This figure does not include pledges totaling $l,OOO or gifts of $5,385 from Dartmouth friends outside the alumni ranks. It is the Committee's feeling that the figures on contributors will soon catch up to those on total gifts and that many ordinarily early givers are delaying to see just how much larger they can make their contributions for this special year.
Gifts from friends of the College and from parents of undergraduates and recent alumni average $135. Forty such gifts ranging from $l.OO td $1,500 have been made in tribute to President Hopkins. The first three contributions to reach Hanover from this special group, which is being included in the Fund campaign for the first time, were two of $5OO each and another of $l,OOO. The Fund Committee's booklet has been mailed to all undergraduates as well as to their parents and other Dartmouth friends.
Two classes have already reached 100% of contributors—lB7B with 138% and 1879 with 100%. Although no quotas have been set this year, on the theory that "the sky is the limit," eight classes have already surpassed the cash objectives of 1940. They are 1881 with 1500%, 1878 with 373%, 1884 with 274%, 1889 with 213%, 1901 with 200%, 1879 with 186%, 1906 with 127%, and 1890 with 103%.
