1943 Alumni Fund
A $245,306.88 total. 12,265 gifts. 86% of contributors.
These almost incredible figures form the near-final report on the 1943 Alumni Fund, which has smashed all existing records for the Alumni Council's annual fund campaign. This year's total, the first ever to go beyond the $200,000 mark, is 23% greater than the goal of $200,000 set for the campaign. The 12,265 contributors for 1943 are 1,343 greater than last year's high mark, and the proportion of givers to living graduates of 86% is 4% greater than the previous record in this respect. Last year's total of $195,715.98 has been exceeded by $49,590.90.
In reporting the 1943 results to President Hopkins, on behalf of the Alumni Fund Committee, Chairman Henry E. At- wood '13 of Minneapolis stated, "We believe that this is the greatest testimonial of faith ever given to any college, and perhaps the greatest testimonial on record to the ideals of the liberal arts. We consider it a personal tribute to your leadership of the College in this crucial point in its history, when in your third decade as president the strength which you have accrued to Dartmouth is proving of such vital importance to its survival through the national emergency, and to its great future."
President Hopkins in reply declared that he had so great faith in the understanding of alumni as to what Dartmouth was all about that he never expected the facts to go beyond this faith, as they had in this year's Fund. "To all of those who have contributed to this result," he wrote, "I wish that it were possible to write a personal and very intimate note expressive of my gratitude for what I belieVe it means for the future of a privately endowed historic college like Dartmouth to have its function protected and to have its future assured so completely as the Fund results have done."
'36, '38, '86 LEAD
In the 1943 Fund campaign, ten classes produced dollar totals of $6,000 or more, led by 1936's $7,895.84. Forty-nine out of 60 classes to which objectives were assigned equalled or surpassed them by margins ranging up to 629%.
The Class of 1938 had the largest number of contributors—451. Fifteen classes, led by 1886 with 218%, had contributions from 100% or more of living graduates.
Outstanding among the many highlights of this year's historic Fund was the surprising number of contributions from men in the service or from members of their families who sent gifts in their names. The strong showing of the younger classes, which had greatest difficulty in contacting their members, and gifts from parents of undergraduates were other high spots matching the all-around generosity of Dartmouth men this year.
ON LEAVE are, left to right, Almon B. Ives, assistant professor of public speaking, who has been commissioned a junior grade lieutenant, USNR, and Harold M. "Chick" Evans, assistant professor of physical education and coach of freshman basketball, now a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.
