Alumni Council at January Meeting Strongly Supports Capital Campaign
THE Dartmouth Alumni Council gathered in Hanover on January 1012 for its 93rd meeting, just in time to experience one of the coldest spells of sub-zero weather in many years. In the warm confines of the Hanover Inn, the Outing Club House and the Sanborn House library, thirty of the Council's forty members, some from as far away as the Pacific coast, carried out a full program that gave major attention to Dartmouth's 200 th Anniversary Development Program, vacancies on the Board of Trustees of the College, plans for the Hopkins Center, and goals for the Council's 1957 Alumni Fund campaign. Council members journeyed to Lyme on Saturday afternoon, the 12 th, to attend the formal dedication of the new Dartmouth Skiway at Holt's Ledge, and for this successful occasion the temperature rose to a reasonably comfortable point.
The Council approved the recommendation of its Alumni Fund Committee headed by William G. Morton '28, that the formal objective of the 1957 Fund campaign be set at 1865,000, to meet the 1956-57 operating expanses of the College and, in addition, to provide a minimum of $80,000 for faculty compensation to match the annual income of the Ford Foundation grant. This year's goal is $90,000 higher than last year's. Mr. Morton reported that of the $865,000 objective, $700,000 would be sought from the alumni and $60,000 from Dartmouth parents. The minimum goal for the Fund is virtually the same as the $864,230 of actual contributions last year. The alumni goal of $700,000 compares with $708,527 received in this division of the 1956 campaign.
Following a Thursday reception and dinner, at which Prof. John C. Adams of the History Department spoke on current events in Hungary and Poland, Council members gathered in Sanborn House on Friday morning for their first session. George C. Nickum '31 of Seattle, Wash., president of the Council, was in the chair. The morning session was devoted entirely to discussion of the forthcoming capital gifts campaign, announced in the front section of this issue. President Dickey outlined Dartmouth's aspirations and planning efforts for the Bicentennial in 1969 and spoke of the Trustees' decision to mount a capital campaign that is vitally necessary to the realization of the exciting goals of the next twelve years.
President Dickey was followed by Arnaud C. Marts, chairman of the board of the fund-raising firm of Marts and Lundy, who described the objective analysis of Dartmouth fund-raising programs made by his firm for the College. He praised the effectiveness of Dartmouth's programs of annual alumni giving and of bequests and estate planning, but stated that the occasional capital gifts campaign was the only adequate way to raise large sums for plant and major development and that Dartmouth among the country's ranking colleges and universities was almost alone in not having sought capital funds in this way. He stated his conviction that Dartmouth has the strength to carry through its 200 th Anniversary Development Program with complete success.
Other aspects of the 1969 Development Program were discussed by J. Ross Gamble, director of development, who outlined campaign details; and by William G. Morton '28, Alumni Fund chairman, Edwin C. Chinlund '29, chairman of the Council's Committee on Class Gifts, and Ellsworth B. Buck '14, chairman of the Committee on Bequests and Estate Planning, who discussed the integration of their fund-raising activities with the capital campaign.
Following questions and general discussion, Mr. Nickum appointed a special committee to draw up a resolution giving formal expression to the Council's backing of the capital campaign, as strongly demonstrated at the meeting. This resolution, drawn up by Leon L. Freeman '23, chairman, William C. Embry '34 and Milburn McCarty '35, appears in full in the campaign story printed in the front pages of this issue.
Following a stag luncheon at the Outing Club House, Council members and College officers participated in a session there devoted to plans for the Hopkins Center. Wallace K. Harrison, the noted American architect, who is designing the Center, was present to speak about the architectural side of the project and to show a plot plan and one of the floor plans scheduled to be presented to the Trustees at their January 25-26 meeting in Hanover.
President Dickey opened the session on the Hopkins Center with an' enthusiastic description of the concept of the structure that is to be erected at the southeast corner of the campus and is to serve as a social center for the entire Dartmouth family and as a focus for the theatrical, musical and creative arts. In the course of his talk it was announced that the Town of Hanover had agreed to the closing of College Street from Wheelock to Lebanon Streets, so the Hopkins Center can be located farther to the east and thus achieve the spaciousness that is an important aim of the architectural design.
Friday evening the Alumni Council met with the faculty and their wives at an informal gathering in College Hall. Mr. Nickum spoke briefly on the work of the Council, after which the Glee Club sang and the alumni had a chance to visit with members of the teaching staff.
The Council held its closing business session in Sanborn House on Saturday morning. Among the reports heard was one by Guy P. Wallick '21 of San Francisco, chairman of the Committee on Alumni Relations, which is surveying this aspect of Dartmouth life as a sub-group of the Trustees Planning Committee.
At its Saturday morning session the Council also took up the business of two vacancies on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and nominated John L. Sullivan '21 of Manchester, N. H., and Orvil E. Dryfoos '34 of New York to fill out the unexpired terms of Lloyd D. Brace '25, who has become a Life Trustee, and Sigurd S. Larmon '14, who has found it necessary to resign from the Board. The Council also nominated Charles J. Zimmerman '23 of Hartford, Conn., to serve another five-year term as Trustee upon the completion of his present term on June 30. As reported in other stories in this issue, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Dryfoos were elected Trustees at the January 25-26 meeting of the Board, and Mr. Zimmerman's nomination will be acted upon at the June meeting of the Board.
The Council also voted its approval of continuing the program of Alumni Awards in recognition of long and distinguished service to the College and adopted the recommendation that as of June 1957 membership of the awards committee shall be increased from three to five, including the President of the Council ex-officio and four past members of the Council.
Council members in attendance at the meetings were:
PRESENT MEMBERS - Charles H. Kent '10, Holyoke. Mass.; Ellsworth B. Buck '14, New York; Clarence V. Opper '18, Washington, D. C.; Guy P. Wallick '21, San Francisco; Leon L. Freeman '23, Racine, Wis.; Julius A. Rippel '23, Newark, N. J.; Louis V. Cox 23, Westfield. N. J.; Charles M. French '24, Cleveland; Laurence G. Leavitt '25, Saxtons River, Vt.; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; Norris E. Williamson '26, Chicago; Charles L. Hardy '27, Chicago; William W. Ballard '28, Norwich, Vt.; Robert M. Edgar '28, Boston; Creighton C. Hart '28, Kansas City, Mo.; William G. Morton '28, Syracuse, N. Y.; Edwin C. Chinlund '29, Pittsburgh; Harry H. Enders '29, New York; E. Spencer Miller '31, Portland, Me.; George C. Nickum '31, Seattle, Wash.; William G. Bates '33, Hartford, Conn.; John B. Faegre Jr. '33, Minneapolis; William C. Embry '34, Louisville, Ky.; Milburn McCarty Jr. '35, New York; Robert L. Paterson '36, Rochester, N. Y.; James K. Tindle '36, Philadelphia; Donald G. Rainie '40, Concord, N. H.; Samuel H. Snow '40, Worcester, Mass.; Alfred W. Gordon Jr. '41, Omaha; and Lewis K. Johnstone '41, Cincinnati.
PAST MEMBERS—Prof. Francis L. Childs '06, Hanover; Philip H. Chase '07, Philadelphia; Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett '1O, Hanover; Nichol M. Sandoe '19, New York; Orton H. Hicks '21, New York; Fred C. Shanaman '24, Tacoma, Wash.; Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25, Norwich, Vt.; Ford H. Whelden '25, Norwich; John C. Heston '28, Philadelphia; Prof. Herbert R. Sensenig '28, Norwich; and Osmun Skinner '28, Troy, Pa.
John F. Meek '33, Treasurer and Vice President of the College, presiding at the Dartmouth Skiway dedication at which Fred Harris '11 (right) spoke on behalf of the alumni.
President Dickey and John R. McLane '07, retired Life Trustee of the College, attended the Dartmouth Skiway dedication with the Alumni Council and hundreds of others.
