1942 Fund Surpasses All Expectations

Total of $195,388 Includes Record Amount from Alumni; 10,922 Contributors Set New Mark For Participation

ONLY $77 X BEHIND THE RECORD-BREAKing total of last year's anniversary campaign, the 1942 Alumni Fund has come through with perhaps the most amazing showing in the 28-year history of Dartmouth's renowned barometer of alumni loyalty.

Total gifts of $195,388.06 from 10,922 contributors, a new record, were an- nounced on July 20 in a near-complete report on the 1942 campaign. Since this figure includes non-alumni gifts of $8,410 as compared to $18,292 from similar sources last year, it means that the actual alumni figure this year surpasses by a considerable margin the high-water mark established last year, $187,103.06 to $177,867.97. This is an alumni achievement far beyond the most sanguine hopes of the Fund Committee, which opened the 1942 campaign with the feeling that it had a real job on its hands to attain the combined quota of $170,000 set by the Class Agents them- selves.

The 10,922 contributors this year outnumber last year's record total by 92 men, although the proportion of givers to living graduates is one per cent lower than the 82% of last year. Since the number of contributors includes graduates, non-graduates, and some memorial gifts, the percentage of givers is somewhat higher than would otherwise be the case, but it is presented thus for the sake of comparison with previous years.

CHAIRMAN HOOD '18 HAILS RESULTS

In a "5-star final" bulletin to Class Agents, Harvey P. Hood 2nd '18, Dartmouth Trustee from Boston, who has directed the two history-making campaigns of 1941 and 1942, hailed this year's results as "nothing short of marvelous." The final figures were made possible, he pointed out, not so much by a few large gifts as by the great number of increases in amount in the medium and smaller gifts. There were 2,400 contributors who this year increased their gifts over and above last year, when President Hopkins' 25th anniversary provided a special inventive—"all of which is ample proof, if any were needed, that this year's total was produced by plenty of initiative, teamwork, and good hard work by agents and assistants all along the line."

Mr. Hood also stated to the Agents that "the magnificent total number of contributors in this war year was a much greater task than last year's accomplishment, even though this year's percentage was one point less." The spirit of the younger classes, which have great numbers of their members in the service, is exemplified by the final standings of 1940, 1941 and 1939, which finished first, second and fifth in the Green Derby grouping of classes from 1930 to 1941.

Twenty-three classes, led by 1892 with 408%, reached or exceeded their dollar quotas for the 1942 Fund. After 1892 came 1913 with 191%, 1908 with 175%, 1940 with 167%, 1879 with 160%, 1880 with 151%, 1929 with 130%' 1939 with 129%, 1941 with 125%, 1909 with 120%, 1900 with 114%, 1936 with 112%, 1887, 1937 and 1938 with 111% each, 1930 with 105%, 1915 with 103%, 1902 with 102%, 1916 with 101%, and 1877, 1890, 1901 and 1919 with 100%.

GOAL OF CAMPAIGN $170,000

These quotas were set by the Class Agents to provide challenging goals for their classmates, as compared with previous accomplishment. Their goal was $170,000, which the Fund Committee accepted as the goal of the campaign. For scoring the classes against each other, the $170,000 objective was allocated among the individual classes by the usual formula based on the age (and consequent relative earning power) and the number of living members.

A tentative final report, ranking the classes according to percentage of these scoring bases attained, is presented elsewhere in this issue. The tentativeness of this report is emphasized by the Committee. In a number of classes there are memorial funds, the annual income of which can only be estimated at this time. Numerous other changes, although minor in amount, will be made in the final report, caused by occasional bad checks, corrections of minor errors in calculation, etc.

Twenty-nine classes equalled or bettered the mark of 81% of contributors set by the Fund as a whole, and eleven of these classes finished with records of 100% or more. The latter group was headed by 1900 with 151%, followed by 1901 with 148%, 1886 with 140%, 1892 with 123%, 1890 with 117%, 1898 with 114%, 1887 with 112%, 1928 with 106%, 1919 with 103%, 1918 with 102%, and 1884 with 100%.

Other classes in the select group of 81% or better followed in this order: 1930, 1924, 1925, 1904, 1926, 1921, !923. 1894, 1911, 1906, 1912, 1905, 1889, 1931, and 1922.

Two classes had more than 400 contributors—1928 with 436 and 1930 with 410. Six classes produced dollar totals larger than $5,000, led by 1913 with 18,578. The others were 1926 with $5,696, 1918 with $5,320, 1908 with $5,253, 1929 with $5,202, and 1901 with $5,001.

In notable improvement over last year, the Class of 1940, under Jack Rourke, took highest honors both in per cent of contributors and in money raised. The rise in contributors was 23%, while the advance in the dollar column was a remarkable jump from 63rd to 7th place. An increase of 20% in contributors was registered by 1890, under James B. Reynolds, and other Class Agents who excelled in this respect were Albert E. Hadlock '87, Frank J. Reynolds '89, Andrew J. Scarlett '10, Bertram R. MacMannis '39, Parker Hayden '16, and Frederick K. Castle '37, whose classes improved their 1941 percentages from 15 to 7 points.

In the Green Derby contests, conducted annually among four groups of classes of contemporary age span, first places this year went to 1901, under Harry B. Gilmore, in Group I (1898 to 1908); to 1913, under John J. Remsen, in Group II (1909-1919); to 1926, under Albert E. M. Louer, in Group 111 (1930-1929); and to 1940, under Jack Rourke, in Group IV (1930-1941). Mr. Gilmore won his seventh successive Green Derby, for a remarkable record, while Mr. Remsen won his third in a row. The Green Derby standings are based on a combination percentage of contributors and amount given.

In the Group I Green Derby, Clarence G. McDavitt brought 1900 in as a strong second, only three points behind victorious 1901; while 1908, under Arthur L. Lewis, and 1898, under Charles W. Littlefield, had a close fight to finish third and fourth, respectively. In the Group II race, Richard A. Holton's 1918 took second honors behind 1913, and 1919, under Edward E. Martin, finished in third place.

In the traditionally close Green Derby of Group 111, 1925 was brought home second by John F. Reeder, while Edward S. Price's 1921, which took top honors last year, finished a strong third. Behind 1940 in the Group IV contest came youthful 1941, led by Thomas Oakes, and 1937, under Frederick K. Castle, another first-time head agent.

Executive honors for this year's Fund showing are shared with Mr. Hood by Albert I. Dickerson '30, right-hand man to President Hopkins and executive secretary o£ the Alumni Fund Committee. Other members of the Alumni Council's Fund Committee are Henry E. Atwood '13, Thomas D. Cunningham '13, Edward E. Martin '19, and William R. Abbott Jr. '27. Mr. Atwood, who resides in Minneapolis, will succeed Mr. Hood as chairman of the Fund Committee for 1943.