Alumni Council Meets
THE football coaching situation was one of the matters discussed at the annual winter meeting of„ the Dartmouth Alumni Council, held in Hanover on the weekend of January 13-15 (see photos Pages 20-23) . Although no formal action was taken by the Council to express its views on this subject, it should be of interest and reassurance to Dartmouth alumni to know that the Council, after hearing talks by Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, president of the Athletic Council, and Robert A. Rolfe '31, director of athletics, gave clear evidence of its complete confidence in the DCAC and its backing of the football coaching decision.
The subject did not become a part of the Alumni Council's deliberations until the final Saturday morning meeting. In its prior sessions the Council, with thirty of its thirty-five active members in attendance, had worked its way through an extensive agenda including a description of the teaching intern program by Prof. Arthur M. Wilson; a talk by President Dickey on the purposes of Dartmouth College; breakfast sessions by the class gifts, capital gifts and class organization committees; a talk by President Emeritus Hopkins on the beginnings of the Dartmouth alumni movement (which the ALUMNI MAGAZINE hopes to print in somewhat revised form in an early issue); a full discussion of the national enrollment program; an inspection tour of the Baker Library; an informal gathering with the Trustees and the Faculty at a Friday afternoon Faculty Coffee Hour; a dinner meeting of the bequest and estate planning committee; a talk by Prof. Carl D. England on the new freshman course, The Individual and the College; and a discussion of future plant development, following a talk on the subject by Prof. John P. Amsden 'go, chairman of the Trustee Advisory Committee on Plant Development.
Among its formal actions during the weekend, the Alumni Council approved a goal of $700,000 for the 1955 Alumni Fund campaign and once again requested that the Trustees apply to scholarship purposes any Fund income over and above that needed for the 1954-55 operating expenses of the College. The 1955 goal is $40,000 higher than the $660,000 objective last year, when the record sum of $700,365 was raised and a new alumni participation mark of 67.7% was established. The College's budgeted costs are up this year, and the higher Fund goal reflects this increased need for operating income.
The Alumni Council also voted that Lloyd D. Brace '25 of Boston be nominated for a first full term of five years as an Alumni Trustee beginning July 1, 1955. Mr. Brace, president of the First National Bank of Boston, is at present serving on the Board of Trustees to fill out an unexpired term to be completed June 30. The nomination will be acted upon at the June meeting of the Board.
The Council voted that appointments to the National Enrollment Committee be for a reduced term of one year rather than two years as at present, with reappointment possible, so as to achieve a desirable turnover in membership. With regard to a proposed enlargement of the Alumni Council's own membership from thirtyfive to forty, it was explained by Sidney C. Hayward '26, secretary, that approval has been given by the Executive Committee of the General Association of the Alumni and that the necessary amendment to the Council's constitution would probably be voted at the June meeting of the General Association. Five additional members are counted upon to give the alumni fuller representation, and with the activities of the Alumni Council extending into many new fields, the extra manpower is urgently needed.
