Members of the Board

The eighth in the series of biographical sketches of members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees follows:

COMPARED with Harvey Perley Hood 'lB "the ant is a sloth, a dreamer," according to a classmate's characterization of the energetic Dartmouth Trustee. "In his undergraduate years he never walked, he trotted. He was editor of The Dartmouth before the rest of us knew we were in college. He pulled the roller and watered the hockey rink so fast and far that he was elected baseball manager." President of his class as a senior, he continued in that office until the new form of alumni class organization eliminated it. He also was elected to the top undergraduate office of president of Palaeopitus.

Continuing active in college life as an alumnus, Mr. Hood directed two of the most successful Alumni Fund campaigns in the history of Dartmouth. As chairman of the Alumni Fund Committees of 1941 and 1942, he "made $200,000 grow where $ 100,000 grew before" and boosted the level of Fund giving to a high never before reached or aimed at. Since receiving his B.S. in 1918, Mr. Hood also has been president of the Boston Alumni Association and a member of the Alumni Council. He was elected an Alumni Trustee in 1941 and as a Trustee serves on the Board's Committee on Investments and its Committee on the Physical Development and Maintenance of the Plant.

Mr. Hood carries out his services to the College in his "spare" time. His main business is directing the affairs of H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc., New England's largest distributors of milk and dairy products. Mr. Hood has been president of this old New England firm since 1936 and was its treasurer for 14 years before that. He is also president of the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, and is a director of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the Second National Bank of Boston and the Boys' Club of Boston.

Shortly after graduating from Dartmouth, for which he prepared at Phillips Andover, Mr. Hood entered the Navy, receiving his wings and commission in Naval Aviation. He was stationed at Pensacola, Fla., until his discharge in 1919 when he entered the employ of the Hood Company. He combined work with graduate studies at the Harvard Business School, continuing the first-year studies in the field which he had taken at the Tuck School. His affiliation with the Harvard Business School drew him into the alumni activities of that institution and he has been president of its alumni association.

During the present war, Mr. Hood is serving as New England representative on the War Conservation and Postwar Planning Committees of both the International Association of Milk Dealers and the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. He is New England representative on the government advisory committees of the War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administration and is on the Executive Committee of the national Dairy Industry Committee. He has served on the Greater Boston Community Fund as head of its Food Division.

Mr. Hood was born in Somerville, Mass., on April 12, 1897, and was married on April 18, 1928, to Barbara Ellen Churchill of Milton, Mass. Of their four children, the oldest is a son, Charles Harvey Hood 2d, and the others are daughters, Helen Olivia, Barbara Ellen Churchill, and Olivia Churchill.

Sailing and skiing are Mr. Hood's favorite recreations. He is a member of the Dartmouth College Club of New York, and the Harvard, Union, and University Clubs of Boston and the Brookline Country Club. At Dartmouth besides holding the important positions already mentioned, Ml". Hood was a member of Casque and Gauntlet and Sigma Chi. In his senior year he was awarded the Barrett Cup, presented to the member of the graduating class who "gives the greatest promise of becoming a factor in the outside world."

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