Bill Cunningham Scholarship

The Bill Cunningham Memorial Scholarship Fund has now reached the sum of $29,400. When finally established it will provide a full four-year scholarship for an undergraduate who exemplifies the qualities which the late Bill Cunningham '19 stood for and believed in: integrity, honor, character, academic achievement, a strong interest in athletics, and an inherent belief in the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

For over a year a scholarship committee under the co-chairmanship of William H. Sullivan Jr. of Boston, president of the Metropolitan Coal and Oil Co. and the Boston Patriots Professional Football Team, and William C. Cusack '27 has given of its time and energy for what it feels is a fitting tribute to an outstanding alumnus and great newspaper columnist and radio analyst.

The committee initially established a minimum goal of $35,000, but now hopes to reach $40,000 or more. Within recent months, George R. Wallace, president of Fitchburg Paper Co., Fitchburg, Mass., and a member of the committee, announced that he will personally match all gifts that are received between the time of his announce- ment and November 1. It is hoped that this final endeavor will put the fund over the top.

N. V. "Swede" Nelson is treasurer of the committee and checks can be made payable to Dartmouth College.

The candidates may come from any high school or prep school in the United States, and will be those who best exemplify the Cunningham legend. Those engaged in the raising of the memorial fund include important men from varied fields of business who were close friends of Cunningham and who admired his contributions to the American way of life.