Progress Report on the Fund

AT the halfway point of the 1961 Alumni Fund campaign, which ends June 30, Chairman Jack Dodd '22 reported that $420,000 had been received from 7,058 contributors. This put the Fund 42% of the way towards its million-dollar goal with a 30% participation figure.

Fund officials pointed out that although the campaign was running $200,000 ahead of 1960, the Fund trailed the record 1957 campaign by $13,000 and almost 2,000 donors at mid-point. The record achievements of 1957, which this year's campaign seeks to surpass, were $928,592 from 18,313 alumni and 2,401 parents and other contributors. Alumni participation of 71.3% set a new mark at that time for all major colleges and universities. Princeton, with which Dartmouth has been having a neck-and-neck battle for participation, recently announced a 1961 annual giving figure of 70.7%, achieved while conducting a $53,000,000 capital gifts campaign at the

same time.

An all-out effort by Dartmouth's 2,875-man class agents organization was anticipated during the second half of the campaign. This will be augmented by two more Fund Committee mailings to all non-contributors: a June 1 appeal featuring an unsolicited letter sent to Chairman Dodd by an alumnus and a mid-June final reminder.

The traditional Green Derby competition was close in all groups, with these classes leading on May 15: Group I (1911-1917) - 1915 with Harold H. Lounsberry as head agent; Group II (1918-1924) - 1919 led by Frederick M. Daley; Group III (1925-1931) - 1929 led by M. Carter Strickland; Group IV (1932-1939) - 1935 led by Robert W. Naramore; Group V (1940-1946) - 1940 led by John B. Burnap; Group VI (1947-1953) - 1952 led by E. John Rosenwald Jr.; and Group VII (1954-1960) - 1960 led by William G. Batt.