Class Scholarship Funds

AMONG class scholarship funds, which are an increasingly active and important development in Dartmouth's financial aid program, the Class of 1914 Scholarship Fund attained a special distinction this fall when it became the first to reach an endowment total of $100,000.

In very recent years the establishment and enlargement of post-25th-year endowment funds has been led by the programs of 1914, 1923, 1924 and 1925. Such activity has been left to individual class initiative and wishes, but the Alumni Council in June requested that, within this voluntary framework, the Office of Development give active cooperation to all classes desiring to undertake post-asth endowment funds for scholarships or other College purposes.

The Class of 1914 Scholarship Fund was inaugurated in December 1953 with an initial gift of $37,000 by a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Five subsequent gifts by the same donor have now raised it to the sum of $100,000.

The first four-year scholarship based on the 1914 Fund was awarded in the fall of 1954, and a second scholarship of similar kind was granted this past fall to an entering freshman in the Class of 1959. Rated among the top scholarships now available to Dartmouth undergraduates, the Class of 1914 Scholarships are awarded to "outstanding students, selected on the basis of their academic promise, breadth of interest and achievement, vigor and leadership, who would otherwise find it difficult to attend Dartmouth."

The' campaigns of the Classes of 1923 and 1925 to endow scholarships have resulted also in the actual award of scholarships. The first Class of 1933 Scholar entered Dartmouth this past fall, and two Class of 1925 Scholarships have been awarded since the class effort was launched in 1951. Both classes sought goals of $25,000 in post-25th-year funds. The Class of 1925 successfully completed its scholarship endowment last August and is now directing its efforts to a Faculty Fund of similar size, with nearly $6,000 already in hand. The Class of 1923 started its fund in the fall of 1953 and to date 112 members have contributed $18,700, with the full amount expected to be reached this year. The Class of 1933 Scholarship Fund is already established as part of the Daniel Webster National Scholarship Program, and it is likely that the 1925 Scholarship Fund will also be incorporated into that program.