Mr. Hopkins Chairman of National Life Board

PRESIDENT EMERITUS HOPKINS on April 18 resigned as president of the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., and was elected to the new position of chairman of the board. His successor in the presidency, which he had held since January 1948, was Deane C. Davis, company vice president and general counsel.

As chairman of the board Mr. Hopkins succeeded Fred A. Howland '87, former Dartmouth Trustee and one of the founders of Casque and Gauntlet, who retired at the age of 85, after nearly fifty years with the company. Mr. Howland was president of National Life from 1915 to 1937-

When Mr. Hopkins became president of the company in 1948, at the ags of 71, it was with the understanding that his tenure of office would be brief. In a little over .two years he became as much the beloved leader of National Life as he always had been of Dartmouth, and his continued association with the company was warmly hailed.

Last month Mr. Hopkins was elected to another position in the business world when he became a director of the Brown Company of Berlin, N. H„ which is now headed by Laurence F. Whittemore 48th member of the Dartmouth Development Council.