Curtis Is Nominated As Alumni Trustee

At the meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in Chicago, January 29, Thomas B. Curtis '32 of St. Louis was nominated as an Alumni Trustee of the College. The nominee has been serving an unexpired term and now stands for election to a first full term of five years beginning July 1.

Mr. Curtis, who is a member of the law firm of Biggs, Curtis and Crossen in St. Louis, was reelected to Congress in 1952. The district he represents is one of the largest in the United States. A member of the St. Louis County Republican Central Committee from 1946 through 1950, he was chosen by the Missouri Supreme Court to represent the State Grievance Committee in 1947 and also served as a member of the State Board of Law Examiners. The youngest member at the time of his election, he became a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in 1936. He received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1935. Mr. Curtis, the father of four children, has three Dartmouth brothers: William S. Curtis '36, Ernest M. Curtis '37 and James W. Curtis '42.

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 qualified to vote, an official ballot containingthe name of the alumnus nominated bythe Council for the office of Trustee andthe name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting,by proxy shall be allowed in voting forAlumni Trustees, and the polls shall closeon June 10 before Commencement.

"If no candidates are nominated bypetition as above set forth, no voting forTrustees shall take place, and the alumnusnominated by the Council shall be thecandidate of the alumni for the office ofTrustee."

THOMAS B. CURTIS '32, U.S. Congressman from Missouri, who has been nominated by the Alumni Council for a first full term as Alumni Trustee.