Alumni Records Office To Lose Charlotte

THE person who knows more about Dartmouth men than anyone in or out of Hanover, and who in the process of acquiring all that information has established herself as the foremost college alumni recorder in the profession, will relinquish her Dartmouth post within the next two months.

Mrs. Charlotte Ford Morrison, Alumni Recorder of the College since 1926, will officially turn over her title and responsibilities on January 1 to Miss Alyce V. Robertson of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Robertson, who has been working with Mrs. Morrison in the Alumni Records Office since early September, was manager of Dartmouth's special New York office during the Capital Gifts Campaign from 1957 to 1959.

With her husband, Prof. Hugh S. Morrison '26 of the Art Department, who will be on leave of absence for the winter term, Mrs. Morrison will head for Florida and the first long respite from Dartmouth work since she joined the College staff 37 years ago. Given the assignment of producing the 1925 General Cata- logue, she accomplished this in 1924-25, spent the next year as assistant business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and assumed the position of Alumni Recorder in 1926. Since the long and interesting story of the development of that office from a Parkhurst attic cubicle to the present operation in Crosby Hall will be told in next month's issue, the details of what is popularly known as ARO will not be undertaken here.

Born in Hanover and educated in the local schools, Mrs. Morrison was graduated from Simmons College, which she later served as a Trustee, and also from the Simmons School of Library Science. After a short period of library work in Bridgeport, Conn., she was employed for four years by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in New York City before returning to Hanover.

In civic and political affairs of the town and state Mrs. Morrison deserves the description once given to Madame de Stael - "a whirlwind in petticoats." After serving in the past on two special school committees dealing with salaries and curriculum, and on the Hanover Finance Committee for six years, two of them as chairman, she is presently chairman of the Town Planning Board and the Precinct Planning Board, a trustee of the Howe Library, and chairman of the Hanover United Nations Committee.

Among her state activities, Mrs. Morrison is former president of the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, former president of the New Hampshire Democratic Women's Organization, one of the founders and presently a director of the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs, and presently a member of the State Library Commission.

Known as Charlotte Ford to the legions of Dartmouth men she kept track of, sometimes with brilliant detective work, Dartmouth's Alumni Recorder became Mrs. Hugh S. Morrison on February 2, 1956, when she married Dartmouth's well-known art professor.

Miss Robertson, who takes over the direction of the Alumni Records Office on January 1, was educated at Centenary College for Women, the University of Pennsylvania, Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, and the N.Y.U. School of Commerce and Finance. During the past twelve years she has been secretary or office manager for General Electric in New York; Station WQXR, New York; the Donahue Sales Corporation, New York; the American Oil Company, New York and Chicago; the Dartmouth College Development Program; and most recently, 1960-61, the Brown University Development Program.

Charlotte Ford Morrison and her successor, Alyce Robertson