AT the January meeting of the Dart. mouth Alumni Council, Sigurd S. Larmon '14 of New York, N. Y., was nominated for election to a second term of five years as Alumni Trustee of the College.
As the Alumni Council nominee, Mr. Larmon's name will go to the Trustees for election at their meeting in June unless other nominations are submitted as described below. This nomination is made by the Council acting for the alumni.
The nominee has served as president of the General Association of Alumni of the College and of the Alumni Council. He is a past chairman of the Alumni Fund and was the first chairman of Class Memorial Funds at 25th reunions and of the Dartmouth Development Council.
Mr. Larmon is a leading advertising executive in New York City. He is chairman of the board and president of Young & Rubicam, Inc., and past chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. He is a director of the Scarsdale (N.Y.) National Bank and Trust Company and of the Rumford Press.
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 quoted herewith:
"Said secretary shall also give notice, notless than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominateAlumni Trustee or Trustees to take officeon the first Monday after Commencement.
"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any onehundred alumni qualified to vote for theCouncil of Alumni may file with the saidsecretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualifiedalumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee.Said secretary shall, as soon as practicableafter expiry of the period for nominationby petition, send to each alumnus qualifiedto vote, an official ballot containing thename of the alumnus nominated by theCouncil for the office of Trustee and thename or names of candidates nominated bypetition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxyshall be allowed in voting for AlumniTrustees, and the polls shall close on June10 before Commencement."If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."
SIGURD S. LARMON '14