Retires at 85

Fred A. Howland '87, former Dartmouth College Trustee, has retired at the age of 85 from his position as, chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Co., of Montpelier, Vt. His retirement ends nearly fifty years of association with the company. He was president of National Life from 1915 until 1937, and has been board chairman since then. Some years ago he predicted that he would not retire until he was 85.

Mr. Howland served for ten years as one of the Alumni Trustees of the College, and in 1933 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. He holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.

Dartmouth's President-Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins has succeeded Mr. Howland as chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Co. Mr. Hopkins recently resigned as company president, a position he accepted in 1948.

FRED A. HOWLAND '87