1952 Fund Rolls Along
WITH the 1952 Dartmouth Alumni Fund campaign less than a month old at this writing, the results to date have been most gratifying. As of April 16 a total of 2,695 alumni, parents and friends had contributed $152,098 for an average gift of $56.44.
Last year for a similar period, the Fund had 2,591 contributions amounting to $138,476 with gifts averaging $53.44. On a comparative basis, then, the present Fund is up 104 contributors over 1951, while the total amount is $13,622 higher and the average gift has increased by $3.00. The Alumni Fund is off to a good start, but is still a long way from the $500,000 goal set for June 30.
An unusually strong turnout at the Alumni Fund "Kick-off" dinners held about the first of April in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston and New York was an indication that the campaign is in the hands of enthusiastic groups of class agents this spring. Trophies were awarded at these dinners for excellent work in the 1951 Fund campaign to: Marvin L. Frederick '15—james B. Reynolds Trophy; Richard W. Bowlen '30—Harvey P. Hood Trophy; and Addison L. Winship II '42—John R. Mason Trophy. In addition, the Alumni Fund Comniittee presented a special citation to Roger C. Wilde '21, a previous Reynolds Trophy winner, in recognition of his extraordinary achievement last spring. The citations accompanying these awards will be found in the class notes section of this issue.
In a special Fund mailing piece that went to alumni this month, President Dickey has this to say: "When the history of the modern Dartmouth is written, the Alumni Fund will likely stand out as the bootstrap by which this college raised itself to contemporary greatness. For thirtyseven years now this cooperative effort has provided Dartmouth with that thin margin of excellence which makes the difference as between one life and another and as between one college and another."
In the earliest Fund appeals some of the classes have injected a light note with this formula for 1952 giving: Write down your class (four figures). Multiply it by the number of gallons of rum Eleazar brought to first Commencement (500). Subtract number of years John Dickey will have completed as President this fall (7). Multiply by number of miles to Lyme (10). Add your last year's Fund gift to the nearest dollar. Add 70. Multiply by the number of times that Dartmouth Hall has burned (a). Result: the first four digits will be the year you graduated and the last digits a suggested gift to the 1952 Alumni Fund.
