Alumni Trustee

AT THE MEETING of the Alumni Council in Hanover January 11 Beardsley Ruml '15 of New York City was nominated as Alumni Trustee for a first full term of five years to succed Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles '02 of Providence who will not be eligible for reelection upon the expiration of his second term of five years in June. The nomination of Mr. Ruml will go to the Board of Trustees for action in June. According to traditional procedure Mr. Ruml, as the nominee of the Council in behaff of the alumni body, will be elected unless other nominations are made as outlined below.

The nominee has achieved national distinction as author, speaker, and businessman, with long experience in academic and public affairs. He achieved a Phi Beta Kappa record at Dartmouth, graduated in 1915, and earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Chicago in 1917. After serving in the Army in World War I he entered business and later became assistant to the president of the Carnegie Corporation and then director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. He became Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1931 and in 1934 was chosen treasurer of R. H. Macy and Company, of which he is now chairman of the board. He is also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Ruml's "Pay as You Go" income tax plan earned him a national reputation as an economist, and his keen interest in the problems of world organization now extends his activities into international affairs.

NOMINATING PROCEDURE

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is quoted herewith:

"Said secretary shall also give notice, notless than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominateAlumni Trustee or Trustees to take officeon the first Monday after Commencement.

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any onehundred alumni qualified to vote for theCouncil of Alumni may file with the saidsecretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualifiedalumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee.Said secretary shall, as soon as practicableafter expiry of the period for nominationby petition, send to each alumnus qualifiedto vote, an official ballot containing thename of the alumnus nominated by theCouncil for the office of Trustee and thename or names of candidates nominated bypetition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxyshall be allowed in voting for AlumniTrustees, and the polls shall close on June10 before Commencement.

"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate, of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."

NOMINEE FOR ALUMNI TRUSTEE. Beardsley Ruml '15, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy and Co., who has been nominated by the Alumni Council to succeed Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles '02, whose second five-year term expires in June.