Alumni Fund
THE 1945 ALUMNI FUND rolled well beyond the $100,000 mark last month and on April 20 had $123,251, from 4,236 contributors, toward its current goal of $300,000. This cash total compared with $110,680 on the same date last year and the average gift was up 26 per cent, but the number of contributors was down 516 from the 4,752 who had given to the Fund by April 20, 1944.
This year the Dartmouth Fund is driving for a May climax, rather than the usual June climax, because of the fact that a far greater number of alumni in service are now scattered all over the world. The second general mailing piece from the Alumni Fund Committee will go out in May, supplementing the separate campaigns of the Class "Agents who are, as always, the key men in raising the Fund. The agents who met in Chicago, Boston and New York in late March and early April set all-time records for attendance and for the number of head agents present, auguring well for the success of this year's campaign.
Leading classes in the Green Derby contests, as ot April 16, have been reported by the Fund Office as follows:
Group I (1898-1907)—1901; Group II (1908-1917)—1909; Group III (1918-1926) 1918; Group IV (i927-1935)-1 Group V (1936-1943)—1941; Little Green Derby (1944"1948)-1947-
Awards to Class Agents for all-around achievement in the record-breaking 1944 Fund campaign were voted by the Fund Committee this past month to Nathaniel Leverone 'O6 of Chicago among classes, more than twenty years out and to Alex J. McFarland '3O of Boston among the twenty youngest classes. Mr. Leverone received the Reynolds Trophy from Dean Strong at the Chicago luncheon meeting of April 24, with the following citation:
To a veteran agent who, in his 17th year of service, brought to a new peak the consistent upward curve of class achievement that he has produced through the years; who during this period has brought the class participation to a point almost double the highest record previous to his term; who in 1944 showed distinctive success equally in enlisting the participation of those who had resisted persuasion for four decades through indifference or disaffection and, on the other end of the giving scale, in being the only class in 1944 and probably in the history of the Fund to boast four gifts in the $lOOO category; whose 1944 record was 27% higher in combined percent of contributors, and percent of objective than his admirable achievement of 1943; whose 114% of contributors, 255% of objective, average gift per living graduate of $65, and total of $7691 all combine their high excellence among the achievements of other classes to a superlative all-round accomplishment for 1944; we delight in recognition of the previous sixteen years of excellent and constantly improving accomplishment, of the outstanding excellence of the 1944 record, and of still higher achievements to be expected in 1945 and the years to come, and present the Reynolds Trophy for 1944, and this token thereof, to Nathaniel Leverone 'O6.
The trophy put up by Harvey P. Hood 'iB for the twenty youngest classes was presented to Mr. McFarland at the dinner meeting of Class Agents in Boston on April 9. His citation follows:
To the class agent who in 1944 won a clear cut Green Derby victory, the second for himself and the third for his class; to one who in the four years of his term to date has added new peaks to the already superior class record of achievement; who in 1944 with a class of large membership enlisted 95% of contributors, 128% of objective, an average gift per living graduate of $16, and an improvement of 5% over one of the best records among the youngest twenty classes the previous year, for a total of $7077; to the first class agent chosen as representative of the Class Agents' AsssoCiation on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, over his own violent protest as a member of the Alumni Fund Committee, and in defiance of his contention that such personal recognition is inappropriate for an achievement which he insists is that of a large group of men; and in the sincere hope that his outraged modesty will hereby suffer the maximum of discomfort, we present this token of the trophy awarded by Harvey P. Hood '18 for the outstanding class among the youngest twenty classes to, Alex J. McFarland '3O.
The Dartmouth Alumni Fund will welcome War Bonds from alumni who prefer to combine their Fund gift with the 7th War Loan Drive. Only Series F and Series G Bonds may be given to the Fund and these should be made out to "Trustees of Dartmouth College, A Corporation, Hanover, New Hampshire."
