1961 Chairman's Report

Chairman

1961 MARKS THE START of a new era for Dartmouth and the Alumni Fund. During the critical decade ahead the Fund must again become a major source of financial support for the College.

We move into this new era with a strength developed over forty-six years of enormously successful Alumni Fund campaigns and a new-found vigor and maturity stemming from our triumphal completion of Dartmouth's first Capital Gifts Campaign.

As in the past, the traditional task of the Alumni Fund is to supply the annual funds needed to help finance adequately all of the College's programs, particularly those relating to scholarship aid and faculty compensation. This year the Alumni Fund Committee seeks to help meet the new challenges which Dartmouth faces in the highly competitive educational world of the sixties with a vigorous Fund.

In shaping our 1961 program a major objective will be to re-establish Dartmouth's position as a national leader in alumni participation percentage. At the same time we must press forward in our search for realistic giving at all levels. In recent years Princeton, with about the same number of alumni, has reached $1,500,000 with its annual Fund and Yale has passed the two-million figure.

Your Committee will endeavor to make available to all alumni information indicating exactly where the Fund stands now, where we hope to go and why. In charting such a course the assistance of each alumnus is vital. Most importantly we want to have the understanding that can come only from a studied awareness of Dartmouth's highly competitive situation in the field of higher education and of what needs to be accomplished if we are to remain at the forefront of the strong private institutions.