DARTMOUTH PARENTS

Their Generous Support Maintains Usual High Level

THE ACHIEVEMENT of the 1945 Alumni Fund in raising the unprecedented sum of $337,451 for unrestricted use by the Trustees in the interests of the College is a remarkable one. It is all the more remarkable when one recalls that the total raised in 1944, the previous record year, was $284,246, $52,000 less than in 1945, and that 1944 in turn had broken the 1943 record by more than $40,000. The sense of gratification and pride that this achievement brings to Dartmouth men is fully shared by those Dartmouth parents who, in ever increasing numbers, have given their active interest and assistance in support of the College's work.

Dartmouth parents take special satisfaction in the several different ways in which they have helped to make the 1945 Fund the success that it was. They played an important part in the newsletter program. During the war when upwards of nine thousand Dartmouth sons were in the service, most of them in distant theaters of operations, the class newsletters brought them news of their classmates that they could riot have gotten in any other way. In countless letters they have expressed their appreciation and have told how much it meant to them to be kept informed of their classmates' activities and of developments in Hanover. The editors of these newsletters relied heavily upon Dartmouth parents to pass on news of their sons to them. In this way Dartmouth parents served as a vital link in the chain of communication between Dartmouth and her men in service.

Similiar assistance was given on a large scale by parents to Class Secretaries and to the Alumni Records Office. The College has been interested in compiling as complete a record as possible of the services of Dartmouth men during the war, and to maintain up-to-date records of addresses, a very difficult task in view of frequent changes in service addresses. It would have been impossible for the College to have done this as successfully as it was done if it had not been for the splendid cooperation given by parents.

In many cases it was difficult or impossible for Dartmouth men in the service to participate personally in the Alumni Fund. Many Dartmouth parents took it upon themselves to maintain their records of participation until such a time as they could once more do it themselves. Eight hundred and eighty-three parents contributed to the Fund in behalf of their sons. These gifts totalled $15,669.75. In addition eighty-five parents made personal contri butions totalling $4,224.54. Total contributions made by parents to the 1945 Alumni Fund came to $19,894.29, an amount that contributed materially to the success of the 1945 campaign.

The Dartmouth Parents Committee takes pride and satisfaction in this accomplishment and in the other services ren- dered to the College by parents in 1945. In reviewing the record for the year the Committee is especially impressed by the many opportunities that arose for parents to give valuable help to the College and by the interested and generous way in which so many parents responded to the challenge. It looks forward to 1946 confident in the belief that Dartmouth parents will not only continue but will steadily widen and intensify their efforts in behalf of the College.

COL WILLIAM H. COULSON, co-chairman of the Dartmouth Parents Committee who originally conceived an enlarged role for parents in the life of the College and as co-chairman of the Dartmouth Parents Committee with Percy O. Dorr '02 continued in this field in 1945.

CO-CHAIRMAN, DARTMOUTH PARENTS COMMITTEE