Alumni Fund

CONTINUING last year's effort to provide the extra operating income so vital to the College and at the same time to add substantially to the funds available for the Hopkins projects, the 1947 Alumni Fund is off to an encouraging start.

With the majority of Dartmouth's servicemen returned to civilian life and mail delivery problems proportionately lessened, the Fund reverted to its normal schedule of an April 1 opening date. Returns in both contributors and money are approximately equal to last year in proportion to the adjusted opening date. As of April 12, the totals stood at 2100 gifts and $89,000 The average gift this represents is $42.18 compared with $39.53 at the same date last year.

The opening Fund mailing piece which carried a succinct analysis by President Dickey of Dartmouth's needs in terms of her opportunity has been well received and has accounted for a sharp upturn in gifts to the Fund during the early part of April.

From now on the campaign will be increasingly in the hands of the class agents. Under the leadership of Chairman Richard A. Holton '18, whose record as a class agent is one of the all-time best, the agents will be striving to make this year's Fund a record in terms of the number of alumni participating.

At the Class Agents Dinner in New York on March 19, John F. Conners 'l4 was pres ented with a Ticknor print for all-around excellence as a class agent in the group of classes more than twenty years out of coll ege. George W. Provost '27 was awarded a set of Professor L. B. Richardson's "History of Dartmouth College," in recognition of his services among the class agents of the last twenty classes. The citations which accompanied these awards will be found with the respective Class Notes of these two men in this issue.