Development Program Leaders Named
PRESIDENT Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins will be honorary national chairman of Dartmouth's 200 th Anniversary Development Program, President Dickey has announced.
Also named to the organization of the program are Sherman Adams '20, assistant to President Eisenhower, as honorary co-chairman, and nine others who will be honorary vice-chairmen.
The program, under the national chairman, Charles J. Zimmerman '23, is designed, according to President Dickey, "to bring everything about Dartmouth - from her purpose to her performance - to pre-eminence."
The honorary vice-chairmen named by the President are: Edwin R. Bartlett '04, Niagara Falls, N.Y., former chairman of the board of the Hooker Electrochemical Co., and grandson of Dartmouth's eighth president, the Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett; Arthur J. Cohen '03, New York attorney; Channing H. Cox '01, Boston, former Governor of Massachusetts; J. Frank Drake '02, Pittsburgh, former chairman of the board of the Gulf Oil Corporation; Conrad Hilton, Los Angeles, president of the Hilton Hotels Corporation; George H. Howard '07, New York, attorney and founder of Atlas Corporation; Mrs. George Jewett, Spokane, Wash., wife of the late George F. jewett, chairman of the board of Potlatch Forests, Inc.; Joseph W. Martin Jr., LL.D. '55, minority leader in the U. S. House of Representatives; and Gerard Swope, LL.D. '52, Ossining, N.Y., former president of General Electric Corporation.
The long-range aim of the development effort is to jsrovide funds for needed expansion of the physical plant and increased faculty salaries.
The first step in the twelve-year program is the launching this fall of a two-year capital gifts campaign. The organizational phase of the national leadership for this campaign is now being completed and announcement of the names of other leaders will be made in subsequent issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Since October organized committees have been at work in a number of cities on the advance gift phases of the campaign, which will increase in scope in January and continue through next summer, when the general campaign will be launched.
Ernest Martin Hopkins '01
Mrs. George F. Jewett
Conrad Hilton
Gerard Swope, LL.D. '52
Edwin R. Bartlett '04
Arthur J. Cohen '03
George H. Howard '07
Charles J. Zimmerman '23
Sherman Adams '20
Channing H. Cox '01
J. Frank Drake '02
Joseph W. Martin, LL.D. '55
