1946 Fund
THE 1946 Alumni Fund campaign had its official start in mid-March with the mailing to all Dartmouth men of the Fund Committee's opening statement of campaign goals and description of Dartmouth's postwar plans and opportunities. The opening mailing piece was featured by a special message from President Dickey, who said, "I can conceive of no greater folly for us than to proceed on any assumption other than that the days ahead are decisive days," and then outlined the implications of this for both the College and its alumni.
As its 1946 Fund goal the Alumni Council is determined to cover Dartmouth's estimated 1945-46 operating deficit of $350,000 and also to make a "plus" gift, as large as possible, toward the College's $2,000,000 postwar program of the Hopkins War Memorial, the new physics laboratory, and the Ernest Martin Hopkins Scholarships for the sons of Dartmouth's war dead. Upon recommendation of the Alumni Council, the Trustees have already voted to apply the postwar reconversion reserve of $800,000 toward the latter program, and a special campaign to raise funds outside of the alumni ranks is under way. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a more detailed description of the Hopkins War Memorial, the major item in the building program, and the architect's exterior plan for this auditorium building.
As traditional preliminaries to the intensive campaign work which will be undertaken by the class agents and their assistants, Fund dinners are scheduled for late March and early April. The first of these was held in Chicago on March 28, and New York arid Boston class agents will gather on April 10 and 12, respectively. The speakers at all three of these dinners will be President Dickey, Joshua A Davis '27, chairman of the Alumni Council's Fund Committee, and Albert I. Dickerson '30, executive secretary of the Fund.
Early returns in the 32nd annual Alumni Fund campaign showed a total, as of March 19, of $62,215.80 from 1,017 contributors, compared with $68,232.14 from 1,930 contributors on the same date last year. Although several large gifts are included in the March 19 figure, the drop of 913 contributors is still offset by an encouraging increase in the size of the average gift. A later date this year for mailing the opening Fund statement largely accounts for the smaller number of contributors thus far.
As the 1946 Fund gets under way in earnest, nine new class agents are at the campaign helms in their respective classes. They are John R. Mason '15, Stanley P. Miner '22, Llewellyn P. White '25, Howard W. Pierpont '32, Mortimer Berkowitz Jr. '37, Lawrence P. Pleasants '39, Donald G. Rainie '40, James L. Farley '42, and Jeremiah Ludington '48.
In the important role of class newsletter editor, eight new men have taken over for the 1946 campaign. They are Phillips M. Van Huyck '24, William B. Sleigh '25, John M. Clark '32, David M. Camerer '37, Stanton B. Priddy '43, Whitcomb Wells '44, Jay C. Rutledge '48 and Arthur S. Wensinger '48.
MANAGEMENT OF THE HANOVER INN will have continuity when David Heald '42 (center), now Assistant Manager, succeeds Peggy Sayre Marshall (left) as Manager on June 30. Mrs. Adele Ives (right) will fill the post of Assistant Manager. Mrs. Marshall, whose marriage to Andrew Marshall Jr. of Hanover took place March 19, recently submitted her resignation to the College after ten years with the Inn.
