200th Anniversary Development Program
PLEDGES and gifts to the Capital Gifts Campaign of Dartmouth's 200th Anniversary Development Program reached a mid-April total of 15,048,259. Charles J. Zimmerman '23, National Chairman of the Campaign, announced that this total was made up of 1,295 separate donations by Dartmouth alumni, parents, friends, foundations and corporations, the gifts including $500,000 from the Spaulding-Potter Charitable Trusts of Manchester, N.H. and an anonymous donation of one million dollars. The present total is 30% of the $17,000,000 goal being sought in the two-year Capital Gifts effort.
In addition, the College received in December a gift of one million dollars from John D. Rockefeller Jr. This sum is to be put toward the cost of the Hopkins Center and was given as payment on a pledge made two years ago with the provision that it be matched.
Area campaigns are now under way in some two dozen regions across the nation, with most activity centered in the East, Mid-West, and Far West. Dartmouth College regional offices have been opened in New York, Boston, and Chicago to provide staff assistance to the hundreds of alumni and parents who are working for the campaign.
It is expected that 25% of Dartmouth alumni and parents will have been asked to support the Capital Gifts Campaign by June 30. The majority of alumni will be called upon for assistance in a general canvass scheduled to begin next fall and end by June 30, 1959.
Chairman Zimmerman termed the results to date "highly encouraging," and said, "Because this is the first comprehensive capital fund campaign in Dartmouth's history, we must and will carry it on in the best Dartmouth tradition. With this kind of cooperation we are going to obtain complete victory."
DEVELOPMENT Director George H. Colton '35 has announced the appointment of John C. Allen '23, Robert W. MacMillen '40, and Gilbert S. Osborne 53 as Associates in the Office of Development.
Mr. Allen, who will work out of the Dartmouth office in New York, is a free lance fund-raising counsel and campaign director. Living in New York, he was earlier associated with Will, Folsom and Smith in the fund-raising campaign for the new Columbia University Engineering Center. He is married and has two sons, one of whom is a junior at Dartmouth.
Mr. MacMillen, from Cleveland, will work out of the College's regional Chicago office for the next eighteen months and then will return to Hanover for other duties with the Development Office. Following graduation he worked for Republic Steel and in 1942 became an industrial analyst for the War Production Board. The next four years were spent in the Army, during which time he attended the University of Chicago for a year. After the war he joined Pickering Mather, a Cleveland iron ore company, and has been with them until his recent appointment to the development staff. He is married to the former Crosbie Eccles of Sharon, Pa., and has four children. The family plans to move to Hanover this summer.
Mr. Osborne, following two years of military service, did graduate work in journalism at Boston University and served as assistant for the University News Bureau. In 1957 he received his B.S. in journalism from B.U. and was made the University News Bureau's special projects editor. He has been a sports editor for the Long Island Sun and is a frequent contributor to Boston papers. He is now associated with Dartmouth's Boston office.
