Parents Committee Report

Chairman

The Dartmouth Parents Committee for the Alumni Fund this spring returned, to the forefront of parent interest and support in the College with a campaign that gained $26,399 in new gifts from 865 non-alumni parents of Dartmouth undergraduates and recent graduates.

Originating in 1951 in a spontaneous desire to add to the College's strength, the Dartmouth Parents Committee's annual campaign has set records each year since in building to an impressive total of $57,000 in the 1957 program. In 1958 Dartmouth embarked on its $17,000,000 Capital Gifts Campaign, and the Dartmouth Parents Committee program was curtailed. Dartmouth parents pledged more than $800,000 to the successful Capital Gifts Campaign, an achievement made pośible largely by the interest stimulated by the Parents Committee efforts of the past.

This past spring the Dartmouth Parents Committee returned to its traditional role on the Alumni Fund. More than 1,000 interested parents were making payments on Campaign pledges, payments which totaled $179,820 in the 1959-60 fiscal year, and these parents were not solicited by the Committee.

Many of the parent donors in the 1960 Parents Campaign were giving for the first time, and I wish to thank them for their willingness to join with us. Others had given to the program in the past and their continued support is a crucial factor in our success.

A good, start was made in 1960 in restoring the Parents Committee to active status and I wish, to thank once again the members of the 1960 National Parents Committee who did so much to renew this fine drive. I am confident that the 1961 Parents Committee, with the wholehearted interest and support of Dartmouth parents, will muster new support for this important Dartmouth effort.