Heads 1950 Alumni Fund

DARTMOUTH'S 1950 Alumni Fund campaign will be under the direction of Charles J. Zimmerman '23 of Hartford, Conn., well known in the insurance world as Associate Managing Director of the Life Insurance Agency Management Association.

Mr. Zimmerman, who was elected chairman at the recent meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, succeeds John R. Mason '15, who headed the Fund last year but who has been forced by recent illness to resign before finishing out his two-year term. Mr. Mason returned to his business duties in February after an absence of three months because of illness, and is under doctor's orders to curtail his outside activities for the time being.

The new Fund chairman has for many years been a leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs. Most recently he served as head of the committee setting up the regional organization now serving under the Dartmouth Development Council. Mr. Zimmerman is a former president of the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport and of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern New Jersey, and he is also a past vice president of the Dartmouth Club of New York.

Insurance has been his field of interest ever since he graduated in 1924 from Tuck School, where he returns frequently as guest lecturer. In 1939 he was elected president of the National Association of Life Underwriters, the youngest man ever to head that group. In 1940 he was cited as one of America's outstanding young men by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, and in 1942 he was chosen by the publication Insurance Field as the "Insurance Man of the Year." Mr. Zimmerman served with the Navy during the war and in connection with the Navy Personal Finance Program traveled throughout South America and the Pacific. When discharged in 1946 he held the rank of Captain. He joined the Life Insurance Agency Management Association in 1947 and one year later was named to his present post per of Associate Managing Director.

Now as chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Committee, Mr. Zimmerman will lead a volunteer organization of 900 Dartmouth men in the 36th annual Fund campaign opening during the coming month. The goal for 1950 has been set at $400,000, an increase of approximately $14,000 over the outstandingly successful result achieved last year under Mr. Mason's chairmanship.

NEW FUND CHAIRMAN: Charles J. Zimmerman '23, well-known insurance leader, who heads the 1950 Alumni Fund for the Alumni Council.