Curtis '32 Elected a Life Trustee

TCURTIS '32 of St. Louis, U. S. Congressman from the Second District in Missouri, was elected a Life Trustee of Dartmouth College at the October 13 meeting of the Board in Hanover. He has served for the past ten years as a Term Trustee nominated by the Alumni Council on behalf of the alumni body.

At its October meeting the Board of Trustees also elected three Term Trustees nominated by the Alumni Council last June. They are John D. Dodd '22 of Montclair, N. J., vice president of the New York Telephone Company; William E. Buchanan '24 of Menasha, Wis., president of the Appleton Wire Works Corporation; and Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, Ohio, president of the National Cash Regisher Company.

The Board of Trustees, with fourteen members at present, is the largest in the history of the College. By act of the New Hampshire legislature, the Board was authorized to increase its membership from twelve to sixteen, and two vacancies remain to be filled. The Board itself will elect one more Life Trustee, and the Alumni Council at its January meeting will nominate one more Term Trustee to serve out Mr. Curtis's unexpired term, ending June 30, 1964.

Congressman Curtis, a Republican, is serving his sixth consecutive term as Representative from Missouri's second district, covering two-thirds of St. Louis County and the southern part of the city. He is the senior Republican on the House-Senate Joint Economic Committee and the fourth ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee. An advocate of conservative fiscal policies, he has at the same time been a staunch supporter of civil liberties and liberal legislation for the benefit of the aged, handicapped, and underprivileged.

The oldest of the four Curtis sons is a member of this fall's freshman class at Dartmouth. Congressman Curtis has three Dartmouth brothers: Ernest M. Curtis '36, William S. Curtis '36, and James W. Curtis '42.

Mr. Curtis took his law degree in 1935 at Washington University in St. Louis, and presently is a partner in the firm of Biggs, Hensley, Curtis and Biggs. He was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1936 to 1942, and was first elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees in 1951, filling an unexpired term until 1954 and then twice being elected to five-year terms of his own.

Thomas B. Curtis '32