Development Changes

Jross Gamble, director of development and special assistant to the President of the College, last month resigned his position because of ill health. To fill the position of director of development President Dickey named George H. Colton '35, who has been assistant director since March 1956 and acting director since Mr. Gamble's resignation. In another move in this office, Paul W. Dickson '37 has joined the staff as associate in development, in charge of research.

Mr. Gamble, a Washington, D. C., attorney, came to Dartmouth in 1950 as an associate on the Development Council. He served as executive secretary of the bequest and estate planning program and in February 1954 became Special Assistant to the President. In October of that year he was named Director of Development, responsible for coordinating all fund-raising activities of the College. Mr. Gamble, an honorary member of the Class of 1933, practiced corporation law as a partner in the Washington firm of Leigh ton and Gamble, and is still a consultant for various corporate clients.

In taking over the position of Director of Development, Mr. Colton will have operating responsibility for the forthcoming capital gifts campaign as well as all the regular fund-raising activities of the College. Before becoming Assistant Director of Development one year ago, he was executive secretary of the Dartmouth Development Council for six years. Following ten years of business experience, he joined the Dartmouth staff in 1945 as Alumni Fund Associate and executive secretary of the Alumni Council's Committee on Class Gifts. The next year he became executive head of the Alumni Fund and held that post for three years until he was advanced to more general duties with the Development Council, which has since been replaced by the Office of Development.

Mr. Dickson, the new associate in development, has been director of the statistical division of the National Industrial Conference Board since 1950. Previously he was with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation as a production supervisor and with the Standard Statistics Corporation as an economic analyst. After graduation from Dartmouth he received an M.C.S. degree from Tuck School. Married to the former Frances Diachek of Whippany, N. J., he has two sons and two daughters.