Fund Citations

THE MAGAZINE REPORTED last month the award of 1942 Alumni Fund trophies to Class Agents Harry B. Gilmore '01 and John F. Rourke '40, and is pleased to print below the texts of the citations marking their outstanding accomplishments in last year's Fund campaign:

HARRY B. GILMORE '10

To the class agent who won the Green Derby contest for all-round accomplishment in his group of classes, not only in 1942, but also in each of the six previous years; whose 1942 total class gift of $5001.50 was the highest per capita gift of any class, almost $60.00 per living graduate; whose 1942 record for participation, 148% of contributors by our traditional methods of computation, was a close second to the top percentage of 151%; whose efforts in 194 a persuaded 110 out of 127 living graduates and non-graduates to contribute, a propor- tion of 87% unequalled in any class with more than six surviving members; who, through eleven years of service, has tended his class vineyard twelve months per year as peerless steward for Dartmouth College to produce such a richly rewarding yield; whose exploits in raising classmates from the dead can only be described as the miracles of patience, wisdom and persuasion that they are; whose progress through eleven years has brought him to such fabulous heights as largely to defy further improvement; for unexcelled service to Dartmouth College as a class agent, and for being an inspiration and example to all of us, we will inscribe as the first name on the James B. Reynolds Trophy that of the Class Agent of the Class of 1901, Harry Bassett Gilmore, to whom we hereby present this token thereof.

JOHN F. ROURKE '40

To the class agent who won the Green Derby in his group of classes in 1942 in spectacular style; who, in his first term as class agent, brought his class from 57th place among all classes, on the basis of all-rouid accomplishment, to 9th place in 1942, the most notable improvement of the year; who, with the great majority of his classmates in tie services, led all the youngest ten classes in per cent of contributors; who, through correspondence and through his class newsletter, wrcte a new chapter in the history of communication among Dartmouth men and between them and the College, which communication is one of the Alumni Fund's main purpo.es; and who thereby, denied the opportunty of military service himself, performed a ;ervice for his classmates all over the world vhich has been acknowledged in their letters in terms of deepest appreciation and which his contributed largely to the literature of Dartmouth men in this war: in recognition of a s:rvice to Dartmouth through the Alumni Find which the Committee believes especially vorthy of being honored among many notable records in the youngest twenty classes, we will inscribe as the first name on the trophy for that group of classes the name of the Class Agent of the Class of 1940, JOHN FRANCIS ROURKE, to whom we hereby present this token thereof.

LT. THOMAS H. VANCE USNRAssistant professor of English on leave forservice in the Navy.