Martin '31 Named Head Of Alumni Association
JOHN B. MARTIN '31 of Grand Rapids, auditor general of the State of Michigan, was elected president of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College at its annual meeting on June 18. He succeeds Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, who presided at the meeting on Saturday of the final reunion weekend.
Vice presidents of the Association for the coming year are John L. Sullivan '21 of Washington, D. C., and Roswell Magill '16 of New York City. Sidney C. Hayward '26 of Hanover, Secretary of the College, was reelected secretary-treasurer.
Richard M. Pearson '20 of Rye, N. Y., will again serve as chairman of the Association's executive committee and thereby continue as an ex-officio member of the Alumni Council. Other executive committee members are Everett M. Stevens '01 of Deep River, Conn.; Edward B. Redman '06 of New York City; Reginald B. Miner '21 of Boston; Wilbur W. Bullen '22 of Boston; Elmer T. Browne '40 of Westfield, N. J.; and Reginald F. Pierce Jr. '46 of New York City.
Also by vote of the General Association, approval was given to a change in the constitution of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, increasing its membership from 35 to 40 members. It was further voted that no Alumni Council member "shall be eligible for election to more than two consecutive terms, nor shall any member who has not attended more than one meeting of the Council during his first term be eligible for election for a second consecutive term."
The five additional members of the Alumni Council will be members-at-large, which now number eleven instead of six. Members-at-large may serve for only one consecutive term of three years and are to be chosen by the Council with due consideration to meeting inequities in geographical representation on the Council.
The meeting at which these Alumni Council changes were made, and officers •were elected, was the 101st held by the General Alumni Association without a break since its founding in 1855. A feature of the meeting was the presentation of the Alumni Council's annual alumni awards, reported elsewhere in this issue.
