Nomination of Trustee
AT THE FALL MEETING of the Alumni Council, Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 was nominated as Alumni Trustee to succeed Philip S. Marden '94 upon the expiration of the latter's second term in June of this year. The nomination of Mr. Rockefeller will go to the Board of Trustees for action at their late spring meeting.
The nominee is Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. As an undergraduate he was prominent in student activities and was a Senior Fellow in 1929-30. On August 16, 1940 President Roosevelt appointed him Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and since that time Mr. Rockefeller has organized and developed many of the Government's policies for hemisphere solidarity.
According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is quoted herewith:
"Said secretary shall also give notice, notless than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominateAlumni Trustee or Trustees to take officeon the first Monday after Commencement.
"Within two months after such publica-tion in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any onehundred alumni qualified to vote for theCouncil of Alumni may file with the saidsecretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomijiation of a qualifiedalumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee.Said secretary shall, as soon as practicableafter expiry of the period for nominationby petition, send to each alumnus qualifiedto vote, an official ballot containing thename of the alumnus nominated by theCouncil for the office of Trustee and thename or names of candidates nominatedby petition, as aforesaid. No voting byproxy shall be allowed in voting forAlumni Trustees, and the polls shall closeon June 10 before Commencement.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."
