1947 Fund
THE 1947 ALUMINI FUND campaign had its official start late in March with the mailing to all Dartmouth men of the Fund Committee's opening statement of campaign goals and its description of Dartmouth's plans and opportunities as she enters her second postwar year. The opening piece was featured by a special message from President Dickey, who said, "I suggest to you that the true measure of Dartmouth's need is Dartmouth's opportunity," and went on to point out that the three main ingredients of opportunity were the occasion, our purpose and our capacities.
For 1947, the Alumni Council and the Fund Committee have decided not to raise the total objective in terms of dollars and cents, but to stick to the usual objectives of covering Dartmouth's yearly operating deficit and adding to the funds assigned to cover the costs of the three-fold Hopkins War Memorial project. In covering the College's operating deficit, the Fund this year will have an additional burden in meeting the increased costs of a raise in faculty salaries. In adding to the funds for the Hopkins Center, the new physics laboratory and the Ernest Martin Hopkins Scholarships, the Fund is aiming at increasing substantially the nearly $1,000,000 already accumulated from the $800,000 postwar reconversion fund, interest on that amount and last year's Fund additions to the total.
As traditional preliminaries to the intensive campaign work which will be undertaken by the class agents and their assistants, Fund dinners have been held in Boston, New York and Chicago. The first of these was held in New York on March 19, with the Boston dinner following the next evening. The Chicago dinner was held on March 27. At the Boston and New York dinners the main speakers were President Dickey, Richard A. Holton '18, chairman of the Alumni Council's Alumni Fund Committee, and George H. Colton '35, executive secretary of the Fund. At Chicago, President Dickey was unable to attend due to press of college business, but the two top Fund executives were speakers.
Due to the later-than-usual starting date for the Fund, contributor returns are as yet not in large enough totals to warrant any significant comparison with past years' early returns. This year, more than in any other past campaigns, the Fund Committee is placing heavy stress on increased participation by alumni contributors.
As the 1947 Fund gets under way in earnest, 16 new class agents are at the campaign helms for their respective classes. They are William R. Jarvis '93, Robert M. Blood '06, Malcolm G. Rollins '11, William H. McKenzie '16, David L. Garratt'18. Roger C. Wild '21, Donald E. Coyle '24, Albert E. M. Louer '26, George E. Howell '27, William G. Morton '28, John Rich '30, Ernest H. Moore '31, Robert W. Narramore '35, Robert L. Patterson '36, Duncan L. Farr '39 and Eldon E. Fox '40. Class Agents Rich and Patterson will also double as their own newsletter editors.
In the important role of class newsletter editor, there are ten new occupants of editorial chairs. They are John R. Childs '09, F. Stirling Wilson '16, John D. Cannon '26, Charles E. Winslow '31, Robert M. Kuyler '35, Jerome Beattie '39, Robert W. Hewitt '40, Robert L. Allen '45 and Robert C. Hunt '46. Class Agent Lewis K. Johnstone '41, a holdover from last year, will take on additional duties as newsletter editor for his class.
