SCAR

AT the general meeting of the Dartmouth class officers in Hanover on May 4 it was announced that the work of the Trustees Planning Committee is being broadened through the initiation of a long-term study of the College's alumni relations. This study, to be conducted by a special subcommittee under the chairmanship of Guy P. Wallick '21 of San Francisco, will examine Dartmouth's relationship to its alumni in conjunction with the series of similar educational, plant and financial studies being made by the Board of Trustees so that the College may be strengthened in every possible way during the years that will bring it up to its 200th anniversary in 1969.

The nine-man Subcommittee on Alumni Relations, already known as SCAR, will work with the central educational purposes of the college in the forefront of its thinking. It will study ways to bring the alumni closer to the intellectual activity of the College, will examine the present alumni organization, effective as it is, with an eye to possible improvements, and will survey methods by which the alumni can be made fully conscious of the opportunities they have to participate in varied activities of the institution.

Several members of the study group are serving at present on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, whose activities as an advisory and policy group of forty elected members representing the alumni will also be studied.

A key statement in the preliminary outline of SCAR's assignment is that it will seek "the most effective and mutually satisfying two-way relationship between the College and the alumni." This, coupled with the objective of making the whole study helpful to Dartmouth's central purposes of education, serves to define one clear line, perhaps the major line, that the committee will follow. Alumni relations is an area in which Dartmouth has earned a widely recognized leadership among American colleges and universities, and there is a strong foundation on which to build. No one would deny, however, that the "two-way" relationship can be strengthened, or that the whole alumni program can be brought into a closer and more beneficial relation with the educational work of the College.

In addition to Mr. Wallick, as chairman, the members of SCAR are Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, who is serving as secretary of the committee; Carlos H. Baker '32, chairman of the Department of English at Princeton University, who was class secretary from 1941 to 1946; Charles G. Bolté '41, executive secretary of the American Book Publishers Council, New York, and at present a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council; Harry C. Bush '44 of Hartford, Conn., president of H. C. Bush Enterprises and an agent for the National Life Insurance Company, who served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford in 1954; Sidney J. Flanigan '23 of New York, a partner in Frank B. Hall and Company, insurance brokers, who formerly served on the Alumni Council and its Public Relations Committee; Malcolm McLane '46 of Concord, N. H., a lawyer with the firm of Orr and Reno; Donald C. McKinlay '37, Denver lawyer, member of the Alumni Council, chairman of the National Enrollment Committee, and former officer of the Denver alumni club; Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, Ohio, executive vice president of the National Cash Register Company and past president of the Alumni Council; Richard M. Pearson '20 of New York, vice president of Macmillan Company, class secretary, chairman of the executive committee of the General Alumni Association, a member of the Alumni Council and presently chairman of its Public Relations Committee; George B. Redding '29, Boston lawyer, former class agent, and president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston in 1955; and Roger C. Wilde '21 of Chicago, general manager of the Simmons Company, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, former class treasurer and class agent, and chairman of the Alumni Fund in 1954-55.

The first meeting of the Subcommittee on Alumni Relations will be held in Hanover on June 13.