Fund Honors Him

To express his appreciation for the personal help given him by Prof. Harry R. Wellman '07 of the Tuck School faculty, Frederic C. Weiss '36 of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, has sent to the College a check for $1,000 to start the Harry R. Wellman Loan Fund for Tuck School students, it was announced last month by President Dickey and Dean Olsen. This new revolving fund is designed to help deserving Tuck School students to complete their work at Dartmouth by providing loans to qualified men, particularly those in the second year who are no longer eligible for financial aid from the undergraduate college.

In sending the initial gift of $1,000, Mr. Weiss expressed the wish to create some sort of lasting and helpful tribute to Professor Wellman, who as personnel and guidance officer gave him friendly and valuable counsel. College and Tuck School officials suggested that the tribute take the form of a much-needed loan fund for the business school, and Mr. Weiss readily endorsed this idea. Dean Olsen has stated that the new fund will be especially helpful to Tuck School since there is a genuine need for financial aid for second-year men. "It is my personal hope," he said, "that this generous gift by Mr. Weiss will encourage others of the many former Dartmouth and Tuck School students who know Harry Wellman and who have received guidance and help of many kinds from him over a period of years to join in this tribute. I know that he has done a great deal for so many as chairman of our Personnel Committee in helping them not only to start their life work in business but to straighten out many personal problems while they were in college and also later."

Professor Wellman left a lucrative business position to become Professor of Marketing at Tuck School in 1919. The chance to guide young men was the main attraction and in addition to his teaching he has always been unsparing of time and effort to help Tuck School students over their personal hurdles and to place them later in the right business positions. He is one of the most popular members of the Dartmouth faculty and has hundreds of personal friends among the alumni. As a Dartmouth man he wrote the music for the college alma mater, Men of Dartmouth, and he also wrote D-A-R-T-M-O-U-T-H, better known as William's True to Purple. pro. fessor Wellman served as secretary of the Class of 1907 from 1922 to 1924 and has always found time for alumni activity as well as for his teaching, advisory work and salmon fishing.

HARRY R. WELLMAN '07