Sullivan is Nominated As Alumni Trustee
A T the meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in New York on February 5, John L. Sullivan '21 of Manchester, N. H., former Secretary of the Navy, was nominated as an Alumni Trustee of the College. He has been serving an unexpired term and is eligible for election to a first full term of five years beginning July 1.
Mr. Sullivan, who maintains his legal residence in New Hampshire, practices law in Washington, where he served as Secretary of the Navy under President Truman. Dartmouth has long been one of his prime interests; he was president of the Alumni Council in 1950-51, served as chairman of the Council's Committee on Bequests, in which capacity he directed the establishment of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, and for some years he has been president of the Class of 1921. Dartmouth conferred the honorary Doctorate of Laws upon him in 1949. At present lie is serving as chairman of the Leadership Gifts Committee for Dartmouth's capital gifts campaign. He has been a leader in philanthropic, educational, religious and service organizations; and is a director of companies in this country and Canada.
Nominating Procedure
According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is quoted herewith:
"Said secretary shall also give notice, not less than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominate Alumni Trustee or Trustees to take office on the first Monday after Commencement.
Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name "or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees, and the polls shall close on June 10 before Commencement.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."
