Three Trustees Elected

THE Dartmouth Board of Trustees at its annual Commencement meeting in Hanover on June 10 elected Charles J. Zimmerman '23 of Hartford, Conn., a Life Trustee, to fill the vacancy created by the death this spring of Beardsley Ruml '15.

The Board also elected Orvil E. Dryfoos '34 of New York to a first full-term of five years as Alumni Trustee. Mr. Dryfoos, president of The New York Times Company, joined the Board in 1957 to serve out the remainder of the alumni trusteeship of Life Trustee Lloyd D. Brace '25.

To fill the two-year unexpired portion of Mr. Zimmerman's term as Alumni Trustee, the Dartmouth Alumni Council

last month nominated John C. Woodhouse '21 of Wilmington, Delaware, who is one of the ranking research scientists for E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company. Formal election by the Board itself was completed late in June by special mail ballot.

Mr. Zimmerman, president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been a Dartmouth Trustee since 1952 and is currently chairman of the Trustees Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs. He has filled a long sequence of major positions in Dartmouth alumni affairs, including membership on the Alumni Council and the chairmanship of the Alumni Fund, and he was national chairman of the recent Capital Gifts Campaign that raised $17,574,794 for the educational and plant development of the College.

Mr. Dryfoos was a member of the Alumni Council from 1955 to 1957, just prior to joining the Board. He is currently chairman of the Trustees Committee on Educational Affairs. Among a great many outside activities he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Mr. Woodhouse, former member of the Alumni Council and former president of the Dartmouth Club of Delaware, has been an Overseer of Thayer School since 1956. He was honored by the Council with one of its Alumni Awards at the Great Issues Convocation in Hanover in September 1957.

Mr. Woodhouse taught chemistry at Dartmouth from 1921 to 1923, and then taught at Harvard where he took his Ph.D. in 1927. He joined the DuPont Company in 1928 and has had a brilliant research career with them. Holder of more than sixty patents in chemical engineering and applied biological subjects, he has been a key man in the invention of hydraulic fluids, automobile anti-freeze, Nylon and its derivatives, and Lucite. Since 1950 Mr. Woodhouse has been Director of Reactor Materials in the Atomic Energy Division of DuPont. His son Robert W. is a member of the Class of 1951.

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