Alumni Council Establishes National Enrollment Group

Asa major action at its annual winter meeting, held at the University Club, Chicago, on January 29-30, the Dartmouth Alumni Council voted to establish a National Enrollment Committee to spearhead a coordinated and expanded effort in all regions of the country to attract outstanding young men as Dartmouth undergraduates.

This action by the Council was taken upon recommendation of a special committee created last June to study Dartmouth's enrollment organization. The report of the special committee was presented to the Council by John C. Heston '28, chairman of the standing Committee on Enrollment and of the Committee on Admissions and Schools.

The National Enrollment Committee is planned as a fairly large group, to consist of perhaps fifty regional chairmen and to be headed ex officio by the chairman and secretary of the Alumni Council's Committee on Enrollment. The regions to be represented on the national committee will be established by the Committee on Enrollment and the members appointed after consultation with the local alumni organizations, where they exist, and with the approval of the president and secretary of the Council.

Overall policy in the enlarged enrollment program will be determined by the Council's Committee on Enrollment, and operations will be in charge of the National Enrollment Committee. It is hoped that the first organization meeting of the national committee can be held in Hanover not later than next fall and that subsequent meetings can be held both in Hanover and in various sections of the country, following the plan of the successful regional conferences recently held in Denver for the West, Atlanta for the South, and Dallas for the Southwest.

The Alumni Council session at which this enrollment program was discussed was presided over by Kenneth M. Henderson '16 of Chicago, president of the Council. The two-day meeting began with luncheon, Friday, January 29, following several committee meetings that morning. The Council was welcomed to Chicago by Albert E.M. Louer '26, president of the Chicago Alumni Association for the past year.

At the afternoon session Justin A. Stanley '33, Vice President of the College, spoke in place of President Dickey, who was unable to meet with the Council because of illness. His informal remarks dealt mainly with the effort just getting under way to look ahead and plan on the kind of college Dartmouth hopes to be by 1969, the year of its 200th anniversary.

Another study under way, Mr. Henderson reported to the Council, is one to determine if the Alumni Council is adequately representative of the Dartmouth alumni body today, and if a more satisfactory plan can be devised for having Council members report back to their regional constituencies. This study is being conducted by Francis Brown '25 and Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, both of New York.

The remainder of the afternoon session was devoted to discussion and action on the National Enrollment Committee and to reports from three of the standing committees of the Council. The later reports were made by Mr. Brown, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, who is the author of an article on that subject in this issue; Henry S. Embree '30, chairman of the Class Gifts Committee, who reported that 174,000 has been raised by the active classes (1929 to 1933) since June 30; and Roger C. Wilde '21, chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee, who on the eve of the 1954 campaign reported that the total of year-end gifts was the largest in Fund history.

The Alumni Council's Saturday morning session was given over partly to the discussion of athletic affairs, with Mr. Kilmarx, senior member of the Athletic Council, reporting for the DCAC. Robert A. Rolfe '31, who becomes Director of Athletics on July 1, was present to speak briefly. Also heard during the morning were Carleton Blunt '26, chairman of the Bequest and Estate Planning Committee, and Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25, faculty representative on the Alumni Council.

Besides Professor McKennan and Mr. Stanley, others from the College who took part in the Alumni Council discussions were Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College and secretary of the Council; Albert I. Dickerson '30, director of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid; J. Ross Gamble '33h, special assistant to the President and associate on the Dartmouth Development Council; Edward T. Chamberlain '36, executive officer of the College and secretary of the Committee on Enrollment; Robert L. Allen '45, Assistant Secretary of the College; and Nichol M. Sandoe Jr. '45, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

Attendance by members of the Alumni Council was excellent, with 29 of the 35 members present. Eleven former members of the Council also attended.

Present members at the Chicago meetings were:

Lincoln S. Wilson '13, San Francisco; Kenneth M. Henderson '16, Chicago; Everett H. Parker '16, Denver; Roger C. Wilde '21, Chicago; Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, New York City; Raymond M. Barker '23, Cleveland; Leon L. Freeman '23, Racine; John S. Mauk '24, Seattle; Leon I. Rothschild '24, Los Angeles; Edward Winsor '24, Providence; Francis Brown '25, New York City; John H. Davis, Jr. '25, New York City; Robert A. McKennan '25, Hanover; Carleton Blunt '26, Chicago; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; F. Jordan McCarthy '26, Baltimore; Charles W. Bartlett '27, Boston; Carleton G. Broer '27, Toledo; Harry B. Cummings '27, Pittsburgh; Howard J. Mullin '27, St. Louis; John C. Heston '28, Philadelphia; Henry S. Embree '30, Chicago; E. Spencer Miller '31, Portland, Me.; Robert S. Oelman '31, Dayton; John B. Faegre, Jr. '33, Minneapolis; Robert L. Paterson '36, Rochester, N.Y.; Donald C. McKinlay '37, Denver; James E. Cooney '38, Des Moines; and William J. Holliday, Jr. '43, Indianapolis.

Past members of the Alumni Council who attended were:

William D Knight '08, Rockford, Ill.; Horace G. Hedges '11, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Edwin R. Keeler '11, Rockford, Ill.; Windsor C. Batchelder '19, New York City; J. William Embree, Jr. 'si, Chicago; Eugene Hotchkiss '22, Chicago; Sidney J. Flanigan '23, New York City; Robert C. Borwell '25, Chicago; Albert E.M. Louer '26, Chicago; Clark Weymouth '26, Chicago; and Justin A. Stanley '33, Hanover.

In conjunction with the Alumni Council meetings, the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago held its annual Hanover Holiday program on Saturday afternoon, January 30, and its annual banquet that night. The schedule of Council sessions was arranged so members could attend both these events, held at the University Club.

The Hanover Holiday program at 2 p.m. featured Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, who spoke on "The Arctic and World Affairs," and Paul Sample '20, artist in residence at Dartmouth, who demonstrated the making of an oil painting. Following a reception at 5, the banquet was held in the Cathedral Hall, with Mr. Stanley, Vice President of the College, and Mr. Rolfe as the principal speakers.

The next meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council will be held in Hanover on June 17-18, just before the reunion weekend.

ALUMNI COUNCILLORS WHO TOOK LEADING PARTS at the Council's January meeting in Chicago were (l to r) Francis Brown '25, chairman. Public Relations Committee; Kenneth M. Henderson '16, Council president; Roger C. Wilde '21, chairman. Alumni Fund Committee; John C. Heston 28, chairman, Committee on Enrollment and Committee on Admissions and Schools; and Henry C. Embree '30, chairman, Class Gifts Committee.

HANOVER HOLIDAY IN CHICAGO: Participants in the afternoon program at the University Club, January 30, were Paul Sample '20, Dartmouth's artist in residence; Albert E. M. Louer '26, 1953 president of the Chicago alumni association; Clark Weymouth '26, who introduced the lecturers from the College; and Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography.