Alumni Fund Passes $175,000

IN ITS PROGRESS report of May 21 the 1945 Alumni Fund announced receipts of $177,000 from 6,278 contributors—figures which represented 59% of the minimum goal of $300,000 and 37% of alumni participation based on the new index for computing the percentage of Dartmouth men contributing. The cash total compared with $153,752 on May 22 of last year, but the number of givers was nearly 500 smaller than at the corresponding date in 1944. The average gift as of May 21 was running about 24% higher than the average gift for the 1944 campaign. Going into the June home stretch, the Fund Office is optimistic that this year's minimum objective will be attained, but this prediction is based on the assumption that the lag in contributors will be made up in the final month and that the increased average gift will also hold up to the June 30 closing date.

The Alumni Fund Committee's second mailing piece was sent out the latter part of May to all non-contributors. Entitled "Your Investment in Dartmouth," it summarized Dartmouth's growth over the past 175 years and emphasized that "Tomorrow's Dartmouth Is Ours to Build." It features the fact that while sister institutions have gone far ahead in endowment per student, Dartmouth's living endowment, or what President Hopkins has called "endowment in the hands of the alumni," is unsurpassed, giving the College a great and solid advantage in the coming period when all colleges will have to look more and more to their alumni for financial support.

Fifteen classes had exceeded their 1945 cash objectives by May 21. These were headed by 1887 with 404%, 1889 with 269%, 1901 with 267% and 1906 with 224%. Other classes, in order, were 1902, 1888, 1884, 1890, 1894, 1903, 1892, 1940, 1941' 1947> and 1896. _

In the Green Derby contests, which are being hotly waged this year, the following classes were the leaders when the May 21 interim report was compiled: Group I (1898-1907)—-1901 led by Richard Ward; Group II (igoB-i9i7)-i9i7 led by Karl W. Koeniger; Group 111 (1918-1926)—1918 led by Richard A. Holton; Group IV (1927-1935)—1930 led by Alex J. McFarland; Group V (1936-1943)-1941 led by Lt. Lewis K. Johnstone, USNR; Little Green Derby (1944-1948)-1947-