1943 Alumni Fund Clears for Action
WITH THE APPOINTMENT of George F. Theriault '33 as Associate on the Alumni Fund, and with the mailing to 20,000 alumni of the Fund Committee's opening appeal, "'Round the Girdled Earth," two major steps were taken during the past month to accelerate the 1943 campaign which has already made a pre-season start more promising than any in the long history of the Fund.
Mr. Theriault will carry on his new Fund duties in addition to teaching in the Sociology Department, in which he has been instructor since 1936. Experienced in Fund work through his service as assistant class agent for 1933, he will help Albert I. Dickerson '30, executive secretary, in aiding the class agents and directing the campaign from Hanover.
The Fund Committee's opening mailing piece, "'Round the Girdled Earth," left the Hanover postoffice during the last week in February. A three-color reproduction of Prof. Bancroft Brown's "azimuthal equidistant map" showing the distance from the College to any spot on the earth's sur- face, it was sent by first-class mail to all Dartmouth men in the service—now making up one-fourth of the total Alumni Fund mailing list of 20,000 men. Dartmouth College Publications is publishing 500 copies of the map on heavy paper, with the Fund message omitted, for sale (at $1.00 postpaid) to those who wish to purchase copies for wall decoration.
In its report of February 18, the 1943 Alumni Fund showed total receipts of $27,178.86 from 644 contributors, compared with $7,431.75 from 260 contributors on the same date last year. A number of gifts were made early, during the taxable year 1942, but in most cases these were first installments rather than final contributions
for 1943. The Class of 1901, under Class Agent Harry B. Gilmore, had 49 gifts totaling $4,283 on February 18. Other classes with worthy records so early in the campaign were: 1910—11 gifts totaling $1,050; 1927 28 gifts totaling $515: 1928—21 gifts totaling $172; 1931-17 gifts totaling $416; 1933 -41 gifts totaling $430; 1934-19 gifts totaling $209; 1935—24 gifts totaling $137; 1936—28 gifts totaling $137; 1937—42 gifts totaling $500; and 1939—35 gifts totaling $300.
President Hopkins is scheduled to meet with class agents of the Chicago area at a dinner at the University Club, Chicago, on the evening of March 23. In connection with the New York and Boston meetings of class officers early in April, luncheons for class agents will be held at the Dartmouth Club, New York, on April 3 and at the University Club, Boston, on April 10. Separate meetings of the Class Agents' Association will also be held at that time.
