Alumni Fund Opens 1958 Campaign
THE 1958 Dartmouth Alumni Fund opens its 44th annual campaign on April 1 with some 2,000 class agents in sixty classes beginning solicitation for the Fund.
The 1958 Alumni Fund campaign, however, will differ in several major respects from recent campaigns, because of the concerted Capital Gifts Campaign now in progress as part of Dartmouth's 200th Anniversary Development Program.
The 1958 Alumni Fund, for example, has no official dollar objective, nor do individual classes have official class dollar goals. Secondly, some alumni are beingasked this spring to make their annual gifts to Dartmouth through the Capital Gifts Campaign, for which they will receive Alumni Fund credit; while the majority of Dartmouth alumni are being invited this spring to support the Alumni Fund. Next fall and winter this latter group will, in turn, be called upon to do their share for the Capital Gifts Campaign.
The Alumni Fund program this year is aimed at coordinating the Fund with the Capital Gifts Campaign. It was worked out by the Fund Committee last fall and approved this winter by the Head Class Agents and other class officers.
The opening Alumni Fund Committee mailing piece, which was sent in late March, issues an invitation to alumni and parents to join together in support of the 1958 Alumni Fund and its program. Participation is the major theme for 1958, according to Fund Chairman William G. Morton '28, who explained that the Fund Committee is aiming at a 75% participation record among those alumni invited to contribute to the Fund.
"Our 1958 Fund program, the Committee believes, will permit the Alumni Fund to preserve its traditional responsibilities for helping provide the annual resources needed by Dartmouth; yet allows the Capital Gifts Campaign the greatest possible opportunity to achieve its fullest potential," Chairman Morton reported. In 1958, the Alumni Fund and the Capital Gifts Campaign will share the responsibility for helping the College to meet its current operating expenses. All proceeds from the Alumni Fund will go for this purpose, and the balance needed will come from unrestricted gifts to the Capital Campaign.
Eleven new Head Agents are taking over direction of the 1958 Alumni Fund campaign in their respective classes. They are: Edward R. Skinner '99, Joshua B. Clark '11, Reginald W. Hanson '26, William L. Wilson '31, Irwin Naitove '39, Russell C. Carlson '48, Dwight L. Allison Jr. '51, E. John Rosenwald Jr. '52, Edward J. Spiegel '53, James L. Flynn '56, and Steven C. Lampl '57. William M. Alley '21 will be Co-Head Agent with Donald F. Sawyer for the Class of 1921.
Mr. Sawyer will also serve as vice chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee this year. William G. Morton '28 of Syracuse, N. Y., is general chairman of the 1958 campaign, and other members of the Alumni Council's Fund Committee are Laurence G. Leavitt '25, Harry H. Enders '29 and Lewis K. Johnstone '41, with Clifford L. Jordan '45 serving as executive secretary and operating head of the Fund at Hanover headquarters.
Donald F. Sawyer '21, who is vice chairman of this year's Alumni Fund Committee.
