Nomination of Trustee

AT THE CHICAGO MEETING of the Alumni . Council, January 24-25, Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 was nominated as Alumni Trustee to succeed himself for a second full term of five years on the Board of Trustees beginning July 1, 1947. The nomination of Mr. Rockefeller will go to the Board for action at its meeting in June, and is made by the Council in behalf of the alumni body.

The nominee served during the war under different titles and with increasing authority to help develop hemispheric solidarity among the Americas. Mr. Rockefeller served as Assistant Secretary of State in Charge of Relations with the American Republics in 1944-1945 and has received honors from Latin American countries including the Order of Merit from the Republic of Chile. He returned to New York as chairman of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center Inc. in October, 1945.

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."

NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER '3O