Rural Nominated for Second Trustee Term

AT THE HANOVER meeting of the Alumni Council January 19, Beardsley Ruml '15 of New York City was nominated for reelection to a second term as Alumni Trustee. His first full term expires June 30 and he is eligible to continue as a member of the Dartmouth Board for a second term of five years. His name will go to the Trustees for election at their meeting in June, unless other nominations are submitted as described below. The nomination is made by the Council acting in behalf of the alumni body.

The nominee has achieved national distinction as author, speaker, and businessman, with long experience in academic and public affairs. He achieved a Phi Beta Kappa record at Dartmouth, graduated in 1915, and earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Chicago in 1917. After serving in the Army in World War I he entered business and later became assistant to the president of the Carnegie Corporation and then director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. He became Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago in 1931 and in 1934 was chosen treasurer of R. H. Macy and Company, of which he later served as chairman of the board. He was also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1941-1946. Mr. Ruml's "Pay as You Go" income tax plan earned him a national reputation as an economist, and his keen interest in the problems of world organization has extended his activities into international affairs.

He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jewelry Research Foundation and a director of the Bulova Watch Company, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., General American Investors Co., Inc., Robert ler & Associates, Muzak, and the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co.

Mr. Ruml is also a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, National Planning Association, Museum of Modern Art, National Bureau of Economic Research, and Fisk University.

NOMINATING PROCEDURE

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is as follows: "Said secretary shall also give notice, not less than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominate Alumni Trustee or Trustees to take office on the first Monday after Commencement.

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees, and the polls shall close on June 10 before Commencement.

"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."

BEARDSLEY RUML 'l5, nominated by the Alumni Council for a second 5-year term as Alumni Trustee.