Memorial Funds

THE College announced last month the receipt of a gift from the A. B. Gile Company of Hanover to establish a scholarship fund in memory of the late Archie B. Gile '17. In making the initial gift the company expressed the hope that in due time the fund could be built up to $25,000, which would produce approximately $1,000 annually for scholarships. Administration of the fund is at the discretion of the Trustees, but the terms of the gift request that preference be given "whenever possible to boys who are residents of the Town of Hanover... and second to boys residing in the area known as the North Country."

The A. B. Gile Company is an insurance firm founded here by Archie Gile in 1924. The scholarship fund bearing his name honors one of Hanover's leading citizens. Mr. Gile, who died last September, was a Selectman, a representative to the General Court, justice of the Municipal Court, and a director of the Dartmouth National and Savings Banks. He also was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn.

Another new fund announced by the College is the "Fred C. and Mertrude M. Cleaveland Fund" established by the will of the late Fred C. Cleaveland '95, who left $10,000 to Dartmouth for this purpose. The income from the fund will be credited to the 1895 Alumni Fund so long as there are any members of the class living; thereafter the principal and interest may be used as the Trustees direct.

Mr. Cleaveland, a lawyer in Lancaster, N. H., was Clerk of the Coos County Superior Court from 1917 to 1948. He also served as Municipal Judge in Lancaster for thirty years. At the time of his death he was bequest chairman of the Class of 1895. His daughter, the late Dorothy Cleaveland, was secretary to the President of Dartmouth College for 27 years. When she died in September 1954 she willed the College her Hanover home with the stipulation that it be sold and the proceeds used to establish a scholarship fund.