'48 Fund Sets New Mark for Participation

THE LARGEST number of contributors in the history of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund and the second largest dollar total were the highly successful results of the 1948 campaign which closed June go. The contributor figure which set a new record was 13,628, surpassing last year by 89. The cash total was $381,949.48, some $9,000 greater than last year and second only to the $416,677 of 1946 when extra gifts for the Hopkins Center were included.

Under the chairmanship of Richard A. Holton '18, special effort was made during the 1948 campaign to increase participation. To measure this phase of the Fund, the Alumni Council uses a scoring base of living graduates plus one-third of nongraduates and figures its "participation index" on this base. For the 1948 Fund the contributor total of 13,626 and the scoring base of gave a participation index of 80 per cent. The cash total of $381,949 represented 102 per cent of the 1948 objective of $375,000.

After the deduction of campaign expenses, the remainder of the 1948 Fund available for College use amounted to $355,594.90. The tentative financial report for 1947-48 indicates that this will be sufficient to close the gap between Dartmouth's operating income and expense for the past year and also to contribute a small balance to the Hopkins Center Fund.

Accompanying this report is a table of class rankings on the basis of participation. Class Agent James W. Newton '86 once again led all classes with an index of 300, followed by the superlative record of 1900 which, though classified among the larger classes, achieved an index of 246 under Class Agent Clarence G. McDavitt 'OO. In all, twelve classes had a participation index of 100% or better. After the two leaders came 1890 under Clifton Humphreys, 1892 under William F. Geiger, 1889 under Hardy S. Ferguson, 1901 under Richard Ward, 1898 under John R. Spring, 1887 under Albert E. Hadlock, 1915 under John R. Mason, 1899 under Philip H. Winchester, 1904 under Charles I. Lampee, and 1914 under John F. Conners.

Many fine participation records were also established in the still larger and younger classes, where an index of 100 has never been achieved. Outstanding among these was the new high of 517 contributors posted by 1935 under Class Agent Robert W. Naramore. Other classes with an index of 90 or better were 1928, 1931, 1913, 1894, 1906 and 1921.

Altogether 31 classes equalled or surr passed their cash objectives in the 1948 campaign. The 1915 total of 117,109 set a new class mark and broke the record of $'6,531 set by 1927 two years ago. Other classes which registered their best totals to date were 1888, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, '928, 1930, 193-1, 1932, 1933, 1934, and '937

In the annual Green Derby contests, Clarence G. McDavitt 'OO won his fifth successive derby in Group I (1898-1907), and other top honors went to John R. Mason '15 in Group II (1908-1917), Roger C. Wilde '21 in Group 111 (1918-1926), Ernest H. Moore '31 in Group IV (1927-1935), Lewis K. Johnstone '41 in Group V (19361943), and Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45 in the Little Green Derby (1944-1948).