1946 Alumni Fund
THE 1946 ALUMNI FUND, as of April 16, showed a solid gain over last year's record-breaking results in money received, but it was trailing by 1100 gifts in the contributors column. The latter slump is attributed largely to the fact that the Fund C®mmittee's opening mailing piece last year went out three weeks earlier. The cash total on April 16 stood at $133,602.07 as compared with $114,324.48 on the same date in 1945, while the number of contributors was 2600 compared with 3700 last year. The average gift up to that point in the 1946 campaign was $51.40, a marked gain over the $3O a.verage in mid-April last year.
The Fund office in Hanover reports an excellent response to the opening mailing piece, which featured President Dickey's first Alumni Fund statement. The great majority of the returns to date have included an "extra" contribution to be applied to the Ernest Martin Hopkins War Memorials.
CLASS AGENTS TAKE OVER
The 1946 campaign has now been taken fully into the hands of the individual class agents, who in late March and early April met with President Dickey and Fund officers at dinners in Chicago, New York and Boston. Speakers at Chicago and New York included, in addition to President Dickey, Joshua A. Davis '27, chairman of the Alumni Council's Fund Committee; Albert I. Dickerson 'go, executive secretary of the Fund; John W. Hubbell '21, chairman of the special gifts committee; and Orton H. Hicks '21, who is associated with Mr. Hubbell in this special campaign and is responsible for it among Dartmouth alumni. Charles J. Zimmerman '23, who is directing the special gifts program among friends of the College beyond the alumni ranks, also is associated with Mr. Hubbell in the effort to supplement the regular Alumni Fund with special gifts, particularly for application to the Hopkins War Memorial. Edmund J. Shattuck '10, head of the Boston special gifts committee, was a speaker at the Boston dinner of class agents, along with Messrs. Dickey, Davis and Dickerson, and George H. Colton '35, Alumni Fund Associate, was a speaker at New York and Boston.
A feature of the New York dinner was the award of trophies for all-around achievement in the 1945 Fund campaign to Richard A. Holton 'lB and Henry D. Archibald '25. Mr. Holton received the James B. Reynolds Trophy for classes more than twenty years out, while Mr. Archibald was the winner of the annual award among the twenty youngest classes.
The citations for their awards were as follows:
To RICHARD ARTHUR HOLTON 1918
The Alumni Fund Committee has great pleasure in presenting the James B. Reynolds Trophy for all-around Alumni Fund achievement among classes more than twenty years out of College, to.the Class which has, among all classes, most spectacularly demonstrated the Alumni Fund's most significant axiom, namely, that there is no such thing as a "poor class"; to a class which, for its first twenty years, was known as a "War Class" of which little could be expected, and which notwithstanding, after its Twentieth reunion, forged immediately to a position of leadership; a class which has won three Green Derbies in seven years; which in winning its 1945 Green Derby, produced the largest total of all classes (over $14,000); was outstanding both in participation and percent of objective, and set new peaks even in its own notable record; which has, in less than thirty years, given to Dartmouth more than $100,000, of which, almost $70,000 has been given within the last seven years; and which has been for five years, and we hope will long be, led to ever increasing service to the College by one of the greatest of all class agents, RICHARD A. HOLTON, 1918, to whom we present this token, a copy of the famous Ticknor print of the Dartmouth campus in 1803.
To HENRY DOUGLAS ARCHIBALD 1925
To the agent of the class, among the youngest classes, which in 1945 produced the largest total ($13,222); was second in the group in participation and fourth in percent of objective; led in over-all improvement over the previous year; has had for ten years one of the most consistently superior records in the history of the Fund, although without the spectacular peaks and valleys which normally command attention; and the class which has had the good fortune to have the leadership for the past three years of one who, in quiet and mysterious ways almost unknown to the Alumni Fund office in Hanover, has brought his class to a new and impressive peak of accomplishment at a time of great significance to the College; in recognition of distinctive personal achievement in Dartmouth's behalf and of the magnificent response of his classmates, the Alumni Fund Committee presents this token of the all-round achievement trophy for 1945 among the youngest twenty classes—a copy of Professor Richardson's History of the College to H. DOUGLAS ARCHIBALD of the Class of 1925.
