Bequest Chairmen Hold Annual Hanover Meeting

FIFTY-THREE bequest chairmen or alternates, with their wives, representing thirty classes from 1886 to 1929, gathered in Hanover for their fifth annual meeting on September 16 and 17.

The weekend program opened Friday evening with a reception and dinner at the Inn for the guests and faculty representatives. President Dickey addressed the group in the Sanborn House Library. A regular part of these meetings has been a concern for gaining a clearer knowledge of College purpose and policy in order that they may be better interpreted to classmates. This year the President spoke at length on the development of the College over the past ten years and particularly about the plans for its future now being developed through the work of the Trustees Planning Committee which is looking toward the Bicentennial in 1969.

The working session for the alumni volunteers was held Saturday morning in Sanborn Library, under the chairmanship of Ellsworth Buck '14, chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Bequests and Estate Planning. After opening remarks by the Secretary, George H. Colton '35, the meeting concentrated on a discussion of common problems, with Prof. Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11 as moderator. Prof. Burleigh was aided by a panel of H. LeBaron Sampson 'OO, Herbert A. Wolff '10, Ford H. Whelden '25 and Charles F. Bruder '28. The main discussion was provided by the chairmen themselves under the skillful hand of the moderator, and the panel was called upon only occasionally.

The meeting closed with a brief talk by Mr. Buck in which he dwelt on the potentialities of the estate planning program to provide the large capital sums which are essential, over and above the Alumni Fund, if the College is to provide the-physical facilities and quality teaching staff consistent with its goal of being a preeminent undergraduate liberal arts college.

A luncheon at the Outing Club House closed the weekend session. J. Ross Gamble, Director of Development, spoke to the group of the new Trustee Committee on Development which will have primary responsibility for development policies in the future and of the important place the estate planning program has in helping Dartmouth meet its goals for 1969.