It's Over $13,000,000

WITH the Sloan Foundation grant of $500,000 and another large gift of $100,000, Dartmouth's Capital Gifts Campaign last month went beyond $13,000,000 and kept up its momentum toward the goal of $17,000,000 by June 30. The February 16 report gave a grand total of $13,028,395 in gifts and pledges from 8,525 donors.

In the general gifts phase of the campaign, now in progress in various sections of the country, major interest focuses on the Boston area, where a kickoff dinner was held February 18 and more than 2,000 alumni are to be solicited in the largest area remaining in the fund effort. Campaign workers are also active in Connecticut, where the Hartford dinner of February 10 drew a crowd of over 250 alumni, parents and friends of the College. This gathering provided an opportunity for a hometown tribute to Charles J. Zimmerman '23, national chairman of the campaign, whose early optimism about final success has become more and more justified.

One other campaign development during the past month was the holding of meetings of the Class Agents in Boston and New York, with Fund Chairman Donald F. Sawyer '21 as principal speaker. The agents will take on an active role in the campaign this spring, soliciting by mail those class members who live abroad or in areas where campaign committees have not been organized, as well as class member? who deferred making a pledge when area workers did make personal calls. This windup activity by the Class Agents is designed to give every Dartmouth man the opportunity to participate in the 200th Anniversary Development Program. It will also have the advantage of keeping intact and active the Alumni Fund organization of agents and assistant agents, who return to their traditional Fund duties next year.