Curtis Is Nominated As Trustee of College
AT the meeting of the Dartmouth - Alumni Council in Hanover January 16, Thomas B. Curtis '32 of St. Louis, Mo., was nominated as an Alumni Trustee of the College. The nominee has served one full term of five years and now is eligible for reelection to a second term beginning July 1.
Mr. Curtis, who is a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Biggs, Hensley, Curtis and Biggs, was reelected to Congress in 1958 for his fifth term. He represents the Second Congressional District in Missouri, one of the largest in the United States. Immediately after the elections, Congressman Curtis went to Europe as a government representative to a GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) conference. He is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee.
Before his election to Congress for the first time in 1950, Curtis was a member of the St. Louis County Republican Central Committee, a post he held for four years. He was chosen by the Missouri Supreme Court to represent the State Grievance Committee in 1947 and also served on the State Board of Law Examiners.
He became a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in 1936, the youngest member at the time. Congressman Curtis received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1935. The father of five children, he has three Dartmouth brothers: William S. Curtis '36, Ernest M. Curtis '37, and James W. Curtis '42.
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."
Thomas B. Curtis '32
