Alumni Fund Now Receiving Gifts

FACED WITH THE challenging task of meeting Dartmouth's financial problems developing cumulatively out of the war situation and with a new communications problem in reaching alumni dispersed ever more widely over the earth's surface, the Alumni Fund Committee announced to its class agents this month that the Alumni Fund Report would be moved up from the April issue to the January issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and that a general mailing piece was under consideration for the early part of 1943. Meanwhile, the classes were urged to keep their newsletters active, since men in the service had particularly enjoyed these.

The new chairman of the committee, Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis, has also pointed out, in answer to inquiries, that installment gifts to be credited to the 1943 Fund can be, and are being, made now by those who for various reasons find it convenient to make part, or all, of their 1943 Alumni Fund gifts now in the 1942 calendar year.

Gifts to Dartmouth College continue to be deductible in computing federal income taxes under the new revenue act and some alumni, Mr. Atwood reports, are finding it preferable to make their gifts in the 1942 tax year. This is particularly likely to be true in the case of those who make their gifts through their business corporations.

The most noteworthy single feature of the notably successful 1942 Alumni Fund was the number of gifts, many of generous size and many accompanied by splendid letters, from men in distant combat areas. These continued to be received from remote spots many weeks after the Fund closed. Another outstanding feature of the 1942 Fund was the number of gifts from parents of alumni in their own names as well as in the names of absent sons.

This year's Alumni Fund Committee of the Alumni Council, under the chairmanship of Mr. Atwood, consists of Edward E. Martin 19 of New York, J. W. Embree Jr. '21 of Chicago, Clark Weymouth '26 of Rochester, N. Y., and Alex J. McFarland '30 of Boston. Messrs. Martin, Weymouth, and McFarland are also class agents. Albert I. Dickerson '30 will continue as executive secretary of the Fund Committee.