Hood and Orr Are Elected Life Trustees of the College

HARVEY P. HOOD 'IB of Boston and Dudley W. Orr '29 of Concord, N. H., were elected Life Trustees of the College at the annual Commencement meeting of the Board on June 16. They succeed Victor M. Cutter '03 of Boston and William W. Grant '03 of Denver, both of whom have resigned their life trusteeship in their 70th years. The new life members of the Board were both Alumni Trustees, serving their second five-year terms at the time of election.

At the same meeting of the Board, Beardsley Ruml '15 of New York City was reelected "an Alumni Trustee of the College, to serve a second five-year term until June 30, 1956.

Mr. Hood has been active in Dartmouth affairs for many years. In addition to serving as a Trustee since 1941, he has been a member of the Alumni Council and in 1941 and 1942 was chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee. More recently he has served as a member of the policy committee of the Dartmouth Development Council, and in May of this year he was elected chairman of the new Board of Overseers of the Tuck School. Mr. Hood, who is president of H. P. Hood and Sons, Boston dairy products firm, is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Boston and Maine Railroad, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the Second National Bank of Boston. He also is a trustee of the Children's Hospital, Boston, a member of the board of overseers of the Boys Clubs of Boston, and a member of the corporation of Cardigan Mountain School. His son, Charles H. Hood II '51, was a member of this year's graduating class at Dartmouth.

Mr. Orr, who was elected an Alumni Trustee of the College in 1941, is in partnership with Robert H. Reno '38 in the practice of law in Concord, N. H. Prominent in New Hampshire affairs, he has been Assistant Attorney General, a member of the State Tax Commission, chairman of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and secretary of the Governor's Committee on Unemployment Reserves. During the war he was counsel to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Washington. Mr. Orr is a Charter Trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and is a director of various banks and utilities, including the Northern Railroad, the Mechanicks National Bank, the Merrimack County Savings Bank, the Concord Gas Company and the Claremont Paper Company.

Mr. Cutter, whose resignation as Life Trustee was accepted at the June 16 meeting of the Board, will be 70 on September 2. He has served on the Board since 1933 and has been a Life Trustee since 1937. Former president of the United Fruit Company, he has been president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, president of the General Alumni Association, and president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. He also has served as a life member of the corporation of M.I.T. and as a trustee of Colby Junior College. From 1934 to 1941 he was chairman of the New England Planning Commission. As a Dartmouth Trustee, Mr. Cutter has headed the important committee on investments.

Mr. Grant, Denver attorney, was 70 on June 27. He has been a Dartmouth Trustee for the past twenty years and a Life Trustee since 1941. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1925 to 1931 and president of the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide from 1912 to 1914. A leading figure in the civic and political life of Colorado, Mr. Grant is past president of the Colorado Bar Association and of the Colorado Civil Service Commission. He has been treasurer of the Democratic State Committee and chairman several times of the Democratic State Assembly. In 1944 he refused his party's nomination for U. S. Senator. Mr. Grant has been chairman of the Trustee committee on degrees for the past several years.

HARVEY P. HOOD 'lB

DUDLEY W. ORR '29