David Smith '35 to Head General Alumni Association
DAVID P. SMITH '35 of San Francisco, Calif., was elected president of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College at its annual meeting in Hanover on June 20. Mr. Smith is a partner in the investment counseling firm of Willis and Christy of San Francisco and Los Angeles. He is former president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California, and for some years has been a leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs on the Pacific coast. He is a trustee of the Pacific School of Religion and is past national president of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.
Vice presidents of the General Association for 1959-60 will be Victor G. Borella '30 of New York City and Thomas E. O'Connell '50 of Quito, Ecuador. Sidney C. Hayward '26 of Hanover was reelected secretary-treasurer.
George B. Redding '29 of Boston will serve as chairman of the Association's executive committee, which makes him ex officio a member of the Alumni Council. Other executive committee members are Harold P. Hinman '10 of Canaan, N. H.; Charles F. McGoughran '20 of New York City; Henry R. Bankart '35 of New York City; Scott C. Olin '50 of Pleasantville, N. Y.; Peter F. Geithner '54 of Philadelphia; and Richard J. Hasting '55 of Cortland, N. Y.
In addition to electing officers, the General Association approved a change in the constitution of the Alumni Council, enlarging that body from forty to fifty members. The change provides for three representatives of the Alumni Club Officers Association instead of one; three new members representing the Associations of Class Chairmen and Presidents, Class Newsletter Editors, and Class Bequest and Estate Planning Chairmen; four instead of three members from each of the two most populous alumni regions, New England and the Middle Atlantic states; and three additional members-at-large elected by the Council. The membership changes will make the Alumni Council more fully representative of the Dartmouth alumni body, which now totals nearly 30,000.
David P. Smith '35
