Bequest Chairmen Hold Annual Hanover Meeting
A NEW season of activity for the bequest and estate planning program was launched on September 14.-15 when 43 class chairmen, alternates and wives gathered. in Hanover. The oldest representative was Ralph S. Bartlett '89 and the youngest Charles G. Engstrom '31, whose class is just beginning this post-25th-year activity.
The opening reception was to have been held on the Inn lawn, but an ill-timed shower drove the group inside to partake of the Inn's hospitality through dinner. At 8:30 Dudley W. Orr '29, Life Trustee and chairman of the Trustee Committee on Buildings and Grounds, reported in some detail on the plans now emerging from the Trustees' 1969 Planning Committee.
Mr. Orr concentrated the first part of his remarks on the basic considerations of purpose and academic quality which furnish the guideposts for all future planning. The latter part was devoted to specific plant items foreseen as being essential to implement the Trustees' vision of Dartmouth's quality and effectiveness when it enters its third century.
Saturday morning was devoted to a working session for the class chairmen. Ellsworth B. Buck '14, chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Bequests and Estate Planning, led the discussion. Every phase of the program came under examination with helpful comments by chairmen concerning their past experience and their plans for this fall. Attention centered particularly on means of determining just how much progress had been made since the start of the program in 1951 and on increasing the number of men working as assistants to the chairmen so the opportunity for personal contact might be enlarged. Mr. Buck reported that informal dinners for bequest chairmen and assistants would be held this fall in Boston, New York and Chicago.
J. Ross Gamble '33h, Director of Development, spoke briefly on certain basic tax information essential to estate planning work, following which H. Sheridan Baketel Jr. '20 reviewed ways in which life insurance can prove the easiest of all possible means for making estate provisions for the College.
Following a luncheon at the Outing Club House, President Dickey spoke to the group. He characterized the work of the bequest chairmen as being at once "the most decisive and the most delicate" of all alumni assignments for the College. He then outlined plans now under consideration by the Board of Trustees for providing the funds necessary to accomplish the Trustees' plans for lifting Dartmouth to a new high level of quality and service by 1969.
Class chairmen present for the meetings were: Ralph S. Bartlett '89, Philip S. Marden '94, Theodore N. Wood '01, Howard M. Harris '02, Edward H. Kenerson '03, Frederick Chase '05, Warren Currier '08, John J. Remsen '13, Martin J. Remsen '14, G. Kellogg Rose Jr. '15, Richard P. White '18, H. Sheridan Baketel Jr. '20, Donald G. Mix '21, Ford H. Whelden '25, Charles F. Bruder '28, John F. Rich '30, and Charles G. Engstrom '31.
Alternates representing their classes were: Warren C. Kendall '99, Prof. Charles A. Proctor '00, D. Sidney Rollins '04, Dr. Harry C. Storrs '07, Harold P. Jackson '10, Prof. Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, William C. Eaton '17, Howard W. Cole '19, Dr. Theodore R. Miner '23, Prof. Chauncey N. Allen '24, Carl F. Schipper Jr. '26, Warren L. Fellingham '26, and George B. Redding '29.
Council Members
Laurence G. Leavitt '25, headmaster of Vermon Academy, elected a member-at-large of the Alumni Council for a three-year term.
Lewis K. Johnstone '41 of Cincinnati, alsoelected a member-at-large for three years.
