Pres. Hopkins to Make Fund Statement

THE UNPRECEDENTEDLY EARLY start of the Alumni Fund campaign in February last year, necessitated by the world-wide dispersal of Dartmouth men, will be duplicated this month when a message from President Hopkins on the state of the College will be mailed out to all alumni as the opening gun of the 1944 campaign. Written at the request of the Alumni Fund Committee of the Alumni Council, the President's statement will not only summarize the wartime operations of the College but will also look ahead to the postwar period, for which a Postwar Reconversion Reserve of between one and two million dollars is now being built up.

In the light of this postwar need and the remarkable results of the 1943 campaign, a minimum objective of $250,000 has been set for 1944 by the Fund Committee, which is again headed by Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis. Last year the Fund raised $245,670 from 12,279 contributors and created new records both for participation and amount received. Approximately $190,000 of this sum was added to $84,000 of special intersession income to start the Postwar , Reconversion Reserve, which Fund leaders hope this year to boost to the half-million mark.

Several hundred 1944 contributions, totaling more than $30,000, have already been received at Fund headquarters in Hanover. Many of these gifts have come from Dartmouth men all over the world who wanted to make sure that the uncertainties of military service would not keep them from being among the 1944 contributors. Gifts from service men, or from parents and wives in their behalf were a highlight of the 1943 campaign, and early returns show that this is going to continue, or even grow greater, in 1944.

Class agents will once again bear the main burden of raising the Alumni Council's annual Fund. Newcomers to this hardworking circle include John R. Spring of Nashua, N. H., for 1898; Richard Ward of Lawrence, Mass., for 1901; William L. Swartzbaugh of Toledo, Ohio, for 1945; and Thomas K. Burnap of New Canaan, Conn., for 1946. The withdrawal from College of practically the entire classes of 1945 and 1946 has produced two "undergraduate" class agents as a new wartime feature of the Fund campaign.

In addition to Mr. Atwood as chairman, the 1944 Fund Committee of the Alumni Council is made up of Albert I. Dickerson '30, executive secretary; Edwin R. Keeler '11, Edward E. Martin '19, Clark Weymouth '26, and Alex J. McFarland '30.