R. L. Rickenbaugh '28 Heads Alumni Council for 1959-60

RALPH L. RICKENBAUGH '28 of Denver, Colo., was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council for 1959-60 at the annual business meeting of the Council in Hanover during Reunion Week. Mr. Rickenbaugh, who is president of the Rickenbaugh Cadillac Company and a long-time leader of Dartmouth alumni affairs in Denver, succeeds Clarence V. Opper '18 of Washington, who presided over the Council sessions Tune 17-19.

Other officers elected were Donald F. Sawyer '21 of Boston, vice president, and Sidney C. Hayward '26 of Hanover, secretary. The executive committee will consist of Messrs. Rickenbaugh, Sawyer and Hayward, plus Daniel B. Ruggles '21 of Boston and Carlos H. Baker 32 of Princeton, N. J.

As members-at-large, to serve three-year terms until June 30, 1962, the Alumni Council elected Stanley M. Mauk '19 of Toledo, Ohio; William B. Buchanan '24 of Appleton, Wis.; and James M. Humphrey '37 of Great Falls, Mont.

Under a constitutional change approved by the General Association of Alumni at its June 20 meeting in Hanover, the Alumni Council this coming year will have its membership enlarged from forty to fifty members. Three of the additional members, as members-at-large, were elected by the Council as follows: John D. Dodd '22 of New York City for three years until June 1962; Hart B. Gilchrist '31 of Denver for two years until June 1961; and Donald F. D Arcy '33 of Dover, N. H., for one year until June i960.

Other new members under this enlargement were elected at the class officers meetings in May as follows: Victor G. Borella '30 of New York City to represent the class chairmen and presidents; Dr. Herbert S. Talbot '25 of Needham, Mass., to represent the class newsletter editors; and Charles F. Bruder '28 of New York City to represent the class bequest chairmen. Also elected in May was Charles F. McGoughran '20 of New York City to represent the class secretaries, succeeding Milburn McCarty Jr. '35.

To fill the unexpired term of the late William C. Embry '34 of Louisville, ending June 30, i960, the Council elected N. Page Worthington '33 of Baltimore, Md., to represent District V.

Carl P. Ray '37 of New York City was elected to the Dartmouth College Athletic Council for a three-year term. He resigned as a member of the Alumni Council and to fill out his term until June 30, i960, the Council elected Carl H. Funke '35 of New York City.

In other actions the Alumni Council elected Charles E. Rauch '30 of New Haven, Conn., as representative on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn for one year; and elected Ralph N. Hill Jr. '39 of Burlington, Vt., as representative on the Board of Proprietors of TheDartmouth for three years.

In accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Alumni Relations, a sub-group of the Trustees Planning Committee, and of its own Committee on Alumni Organization and Relations, the Council has created a new Committee on Regional Organization. Each of the seven Council districts will have one member on the new committee as follows: District I, Forrest C. Billings '28, Hartford, Conn.; II, Joseph C. Mansfield '44, Philadelphia; III, Henry L. Parker III '26, Chicago; IV, DeWalt H. Ankeny '21, Minneapolis; V, Willis S. Fitch '17, Washington, D. C.; VI, Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28, Denver; VII, Ritchie C. Smith '26, San Francisco.

The membership of other Alumni Council committees for the coming year will be as follows:

Alumni Fund: Donald F. Sawyer '21, Boston, chairman; John D. Dodd '22, New York; William B. Buchanan '24, Appleton, Wis.; Forrest C. Billings '28, Hartford; George B. Redding '29, Boston; Joseph C. Mansfield '44, Philadelphia; Clifford L. Jordan '45, Hanover, secretary.

Bequest and, Estate Planning: Ellwood H. Fisher '21, Cleveland, chairman; DeWalt H. Ankeny '21, Minneapolis; Herbert S. Talbot '25, Boston; Henry L. Parker 111 '26, Chicago; Charles F. Bruder '28, New York City; John F. Meek '33, Hanover; Ford H. Whelden '25, Hanover, secretary.

Class Gifts to the College: Charles E. Rauch '30, New Haven, chairman; F. William Andres '29, Boston; Donald F. D'Arcy '33, Dover, N. H.; John E. Masten '33, New York; Philip D. Mclnnis '36, Concord, N. H.; Stewart H. Steffey '41, Philadelphia; Clifford L. Jordan, Hanover, secretary.

Enrollment and Admissions: John R. Willetts '40, Milwaukee, chairman; Stanley M. Boston: W. Wallace Mountcastle '22, Miami, Fla.; Charles F. Bruder '28, New York; Harold S. Hirsch '29, Portland, Ore.; Hart B. Gilchrist '31, Denver; A. Searle Leach '31, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Albert C. Boncutter '32, Seattle; Franklin C. Cornwell '35, St. Louis; Carl M. Funke '35, New York; Kenneth Lieber '36, Los Angeles; William B. Heroy Jr. '37, Dallas; James M. Humphrey '37, Great Falls, Mont.; Edgar R. Oppenheim '39, Oklahoma City; Philip G. Moon '42, Detroit; Hugo Schnabel Jr. '42, Omaha; Joseph C. Mansfield '44, Philadelphia; Edward T. Chamberlain '36, Hanover, secretary.

Alumni Organization and Relations: Carlos H. Baker '32, Princeton, chairman; Ritchie C. Smith '26, San Francisco; Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28, Denver; George B. Redding '29, Boston; Victor C. Borella '30, New York; Stewart H. Steffey '41, Philadelphia; J.Michael McGean '49, Hanover, secretary.

Placement: Harold S. Hirsch '29, Portland, chairman; John F. Reeder '25, New York; N. Page Worthington '33, Baltimore; Robert E. Sweeney Jr. '34, Indianapolis; Hugo Schnabel Jr. '42, Omaha; Nelson M. Graves Jr. '50, Buffalo; Donald W. Cameron '35, Hanover, secretary.

Nominating: Donald F. Sawyer '21, Boston, chairman; John F. Reeder '25, New York; George B. Redding '29, Boston; Edgar H. Oppenheim '39, Oklahoma City; Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28, Denver; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover, secretary.

Alumni Representatives on the CollegePublic Relations Committee: Ralph N. Hill Jr. '39, Burlington, chairman; Charles F. McGoughran '20, New York; Francis Brown '25, New York; Victor G. Borella '30, New York; Jerry Danzig '34* New York; Milburn McCarty '35, New York; George O'Connell, Hanover, secretary.

At the dinner meeting of the Alumni Council on the evening of June 17, Dean Joseph L. McDonald, who retires this year, was guest of honor and principal speaker. In introducing him, Mr. Opper read an inscribed citation saluting the Dean and expressing the Council's feelings about this beloved officer of the College. The citation follows:

JOSEPH LEE MCDONALD

By his courtesy as by his candor, by his stoical courage as by his humorous compassion, this rugged Socrates of Parkhurst Hall has perpetually shown us what it takes to be, as he magnificently has been, the firm judge who yet reveres the majesty of mercy, the father to the forsaken, the confessor to the confused, the friend of the weak, and the guide to the strong—the advocatus discipuli to generations of Dartmouth men. As the College was infinitely the richer for his presence, so it will be infinitely the poorer in his departure. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson never shared with us the good fortune of knowing, loving, and honoring Joe McDonald, it was he who with miraculous prescience recorded in his journals that ten-word tribute with which tonight and through all the tomorrows we salute a great dean and a great man: "Where McDonald sits, there is the head of the table."

Glass Officers Elected to Council

Alumni Council President Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28 (r) with Vice President Donald F.Sawyer '21 at the annual June meeting.

CHARLES F. McGOUGHRAN '20Representing the Class Secretaries

VICTOR G. BORELLA '30 Representing the Class Chairmen

CHARLES F. BRUDER '28 Representing the Class Bequest Chairmen

DR. HERBERT S. TALBOT '25 Representing the Class Newsletter Editors