1943 Fund Gets Off to Early Start
The alumni fund's earliest opening mailing piece in many years, earlier than anything since the days when the Alumni Fund campaign covered almost the entire academic year, will go into the mails this month to all alumni to launch the 1943 Fund campaign which was forecast by the publication of the 1942 Fund report in last month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
This mailing piece will be keynoted to the Dartmouth men in the service whose contributions were such a notable feature of last year's record-breaking Alumni Fund. Since so warm a response was received last year from those in foreign service who were reached by Alumni Fund material, this opening mailing has been designed to appeal to them and is being sent early in order to reach them on time. It will feature a large, three-color reproduction of Prof. Bancroft Brown's "Azimuthal Equidistant Map" based on Hanover and showing the distance from the Dartmouth College Observatory to any spot on the earth's surface. The mailing will go to all alumni, and with this early start and in view of the pressing problems which now face the College, the Fund hopes to outdo the records of the past two years.
The Alumni Fund to date, as a matter of fact, has received in advance of the opening of the campaign more contributions than have ever been received at this time. Approximately $25,000 has already been sent to Hanover as compared with less than sq,ooo at this time last year.
The Alumni Fund organization which has lost many of its class agents to the armed services in the past two years has reversed the trend by announcing the appointment, in association with the 1938 Executive Committee, of Ensign Robert H. Carson '3B as class agent. Also Bertram R. MacMannis '39, recently commissioned an Ensign, is continuing his work as class agent. Other new appointments since last month's issue of the MAGAZINE include Norman R. Catharin of Boston as class agent for 1909, William H. Scherman of New York as class agent for 1934, and Wellington F. Barto of Washington as class agent for 1929.
Service men have been prominent among the early givers to the 1943 campaign. Some time ago the College received a U. S. Government check for $126 from a Naval officer in the Class of 1938—his pay check for the month. In the recent mails also has come in a gift of $50 from a member of the Class of 1944, who just before leaving for active duty asked his mother to send his contribution in the name of a class which has not yet graduated and therefore has not been solicited for the Alumni Fund.
The Fund, incidentally, has warned against sending cash by mail. It has stated that through exceptional luck in the past loss of Fund gifts in transit has been almost unheard of but that last year a number of contributions were lost in this way. This is attributed to the growing difficulties of the postal service, plus the fact that currency lost when ships sink or accidents occur cannot be duplicated as can checks or other drafts.
The Fund Committee has also pointed out to alumni who would like to make their contributions in the form of war bonds that these will be gladly received. The reminder has been issued, however, that the College as a corporation cannot accept or hold E bonds and that gifts must be made in the form of F or G bonds. Also since the change of registration involves complicated negotiations, donors of such bonds are urged to see that they are properly made out to "The Trustees of Dartmouth College, a Corporation in New Hampshire."
Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis is chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Council this year, and Albert I. Dickerson '30 of Hanover is again serving as executive secretary. Other members of the committee are Edward E. Martin '19 of New York; J. William Embree Jr. '2l of Chicago; Clark Weymouth '26 of Rochester, N. Y.; and Alex J. McFarland '3O of Boston.
