Alumni Officers Meet
THE annual spring meetings of Dartmouth alumni officers brought approximately 175 class and club leaders back to Hanover on the weekend of May 2-3. Among those who were guests of the College were class secretaries, class treasurers, class agents, club secretaries, class gift chairmen, and bequest chairmen.
The weekend program opened Friday afternoon with a reception for officers and their wives given by President and Mrs. Dickey at the President's House. After informal dinners at the Hanover Inn and Thayer Hall, the various groups of alumni officers held their separate annual meetings, devoted to reports and to discussions of developments and problems related to the work of the respective groups.
The presiding officers at these sessions included Dr. Wallace H. Drake '14, president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association; Arthur H. Ruggles Jr. '37, president of the Class Treasurers Association; and George B. Redding '29, president of the Class Agents Association. F. Ray Adams 19, secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Vermont, presided over the meeting of club secretaries; and Nichol M. Sandoe '19, chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Bequests, directed the session of bequest chairmen. A Saturday breakfast meeting of class gift chairmen was presided over by F. William Andres '29, chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Class Gifts.
The annual joint meeting of all the alumni officers was held in Baker Library on Saturday morning, with Dr. Drake presiding. Speakers at this session included Kenneth M. Henderson '16, chairman of the 1952 Alumni Fund Committee; Mr. Sandoe, who discussed the Alumni Council's bequest program; and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, arctic consultant at Dartmouth, who spoke on "Far Northern Studies."
A second joint gathering of all the alumni officers was the annual dinner Saturday night in the Colonial Room of Thayer Hall, with Dr. Drake again presiding. President Dickey spoke briefly and then served as master of ceremonies for a discussion of undergraduate affairs, featured by talks by three of the present student leaders: F. Lee Coulter Jr. 52, president of the Undergraduate Council; Alan A. Reich '52, president of the senior class; and Brock H. Brower '53, editor of TheDartmouth.
At the dinner Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, announced the winners of the annual "best" awards. Honored as the Class Secretary of 1952 was George W. Rand '19 and as the Class Treasurer of the Year, Bertrand C. French '09. The award for the outstanding club secretary of 1952 was divided between two 1933 men, Frank S. Eggleston of Providence, secretary of the Rhode Island Dartmouth Association, and William A. Lieson, until recently secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Springfield, Mass.
Association officers elected for the coming year were:
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION—President, Elmer T. Browne '40, Westfield, N. J.; Vice President, Richard M. Pearson '20, Rye, N. Y.; Secretary, Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; Executive Committee Members, Wilbur W. Bullen 22, Boston, and Samuel H. Snow '40, Shrewsbury, Mass.; Member of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Advisory Board, Harold P. Hinman '10, Canaan, N. H.; Member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, representing the club secretaries, Gordon K. Wentworth '40, Boston.
CLASS TREASURERS ASSOCIATION—President, Sargent F. Eaton '11, Bridgeport, Conn.; Vice President, Colin C. Stewart 3rd '23, Hanover; Secretary, Ford H. Whelden 25, Hanover, Members of the Executive Committee, William H. McMurtrie '38, Indianapolis, and Stewart H. Steffey '41, Pittsburgh.
CLASS AGENTS ASSOCIATION—President, Leon H. Young Jr. '23, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Vice President, Howard A. Stockwell '17, Cambridge, Mass.; Member of the Nominating Committee, Charles I. Lampee '04, Winchester, Mass.
ALUMNI OFFICERS chosen at the annual May meetings in Hanover included (I to r) Gordon K. Wentworth '40 Of Boston, who will represent the club secretaries on the Alumni Councl; Sargent F Eaton '11 of Bridgeport, conn., new president of the Class Treasurers Associate; and Elmer T. Browne '40 of Westfield, N.J., elected president of the Secretaries Association.
