'49 Alumni Fund Totals $386,611
As INDICATED in a last-minute bulletin in the July issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, more than 64 per cent of all living Dartmouth alumni contributed $386,611.88 to the 1949 Alumni Fund to set a record unequalled by any other comparable fund. According to a final report sent to class agents during the summer by Alumni Fund Secretary George H. Colton '35 and his associate, Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, a total of 14,519 Dartnjouth men responded to the College's annual "living-endowment" campaign for unrestricted gifts.
This year's total number of contributors is 890 more than the previous all-time high of 13,629 set in 1948. The 1949 cash total is second only to the 1416,677 contributed in 1946 when extra gifts for the Hopkins Center were included. The Class of 1915, with Marvin L. Frederick as its head agent, made the largest class gift, $16,102, and the Class of 1935 under Class Agent Robert W. Naramore led in participation with a total of 511 contributors.
In commenting on the success of the 1949 campaign, Fund Chairman John R. Mason '15 pointed out that Dartmouth men gave the College a sum equivalent to the income from an endowment of approximately nine million dollars. This large sum, Mr. Mason added, is of vital significance to Dartmouth and is a fine tribute to the 860 alumni workers who conducted the campaign.
Using a participation scoring base of the total number of living graduates plus one-third of non-graduates, the Alumni Fund office reported that 16 classes had a participation index of 100 per cent or better as compared with 12 a year ago. The four newcomers were 1884, 1888, 1891 and 1906. Top honors went again to two veterans of highest participation achievement, James W. Newton '86 and Clarence G. McDavitt '00 with 340 and 255 per cent respectively. There were 42 classes at or above the Fund average of 80 per cent participation as compared with 36 in 1948.
A total of 30 classes reached or exceeded their objectives, a decline of only one from last year's figures. Five classes—1919, 1929, 1933, 1937 and 1947—set new records in both number of contributors and total dollars. Nine other classes—l9oo, 1916, 1922, 1927, 1930, 1936, 1942, 1945 and 1946—established new marks for number of contributors, while the classes of 1921, 1923, 1928, 1932 and 1935 made new highs Wlmcjney contributed.
Green Derby winners were: Group I, Clarence G. McDavitt '00; Group 11, Marvin L. Frederick '15; Group 111, Roger C. Wilde '21; Group IV, George B. Redding '29; Group V, Robert W. Naramore '35; and Little Green Derby, Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45.
In a special statement of thanks to all Alumni Fund workers, President Dickey said, "Dartmouth is stronger today for what you have done, and because of the way you have done it we can have the even greater satisfaction of being confident that those who follow us will see to it that tomorrow this strength is compounded. For both this today and that tomorrow I send you, the class agents and their coworkers, the wives and secretaries, the unbounded gratitude of the whole College."
