1943 Fund Awards

ALUMNI FUND TROPHIES for the 1943 campaign, which set new high records in all departments, were awarded at the recent class agents' dinners to 1900, of which Clarence G. McDavitt is head agent, and to 1926, of which Clark Weymouth is head agent. Mr. McDavitt received for his class the James B. Reynolds '90 Award for classes more than 20 years out of college, and Mr. Weymouth received the award donated by Harvey P. Hood '18 for the 20 youngest classes.

Both trophies are awarded, in their respective groups, "to that class which in the opinion of the Alumni Fund Committee has produced the outstanding Alumni Fund accomplishment of the year in terms of percent of living members contributing, amount contributed, improvement over the preceding year, and other factors which the Committee may wish from time to time to take into consideration."

In lieu of the availability of the permanent trophies themselves, which are to be purchased after the war and to have the names of the winners inscribed on them, copies of the recently published Ticknor print were presented to Mr. McDavitt and Mr. Weymouth.

The citations accompanying the awards were as follows:

1. James B. Reynolds '90 Trophy for classes more than 20 years out of college.

To the class agent whose superlative 1943 record, showing 180% of contributors and 259% of objective, is just one more superlative accomplishment added to all those which have gone before; whose class, under his administration ever since graduation from Dartmouth forty-four years ago, has contributed more than $80,000 to Dartmouth through the Alumni Fund; who has served the College in practically every capacity in which an alumnus may render service to Dartmouth and with notable distinction in each capacity; whose efforts more than those of any other one man were responsible for giving to the College the Dartmouth Outing Club House; who, as the fourth chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, contributed largely to the establishment of the policies and procedures which have made this enterprise outstanding among all college alumni funds; the James B. Reynolds trophy for outstanding Alumni Fund accomplishment in the group of classes more than twenty years out of college is awarded by the Alumni Fund Committee with profound appreciation and warm congratulations to Clarence G. McDavitt, Class of 1900.

2. Trophy donated by H. P. Hood '18 for youngest 20 classes.

To the class agent of the class whose outstanding records over the past decade have, by example of consistent excellence, stimulated the younger classes to ever higher levels of accomplishment, the class agent who for the past two campaigns has produced 92% of contributors; who elicited a contribution of $7,500 from his class in 1943, second highest among all classes; who has won the Green Derby contest in both years of his administration; whose average gift per graduate is the highest among the youngest twenty classes, the award for the outstanding Alumni Fund accomplishment among the youngest twenty classes has been voted by the Alumni Fund Committee over the protest of its member to whom this distinction is hereby awarded, to Clark Weymouth '26.