Three Nominated as Trustees

THREE new members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees were nominated by the Dartmouth Alumni Council at its June 16 meeting in Hanover. They are John D. Dodd '22 of New York City, vice president of the New York Telephone Co.; William E. Buchanan '24 of Menasha, Wis., president of the Appleton Wire Works Corp.; and Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, president of the National Cash Register Co.

The unusual situation of having three Alumni Trustee vacancies on the Board was noted by Victor G. Borella '30, chairman of the Council's nominating committee. One vacancy is caused by the retirement of Albert Bradley '15 of New York at the age of 70. The other two are new positions resulting from the enlargement of the Board from twelve to sixteen members, through action of the New Hampshire legislature and the Board in amending the Charter of the College. Of the four added members, two are term Trustees, nominated by the Council, and the other two are Life Trustees, to be chosen later by the Board itself.

In nominating the Trustees who serve for five-year terms, the Council acts in behalf of the alumni body, although other nominations may be made in accordance with the constitutional procedure quoted below.

Mr. Dodd, vice president of the New York Telephone Co., is a member-at-large of the Alumni Council and is chairman of the Council's 1961 Alumni Fund Committee. He was 1922's head agent for four years and is a past president of the Class Agents Association.

Mr. Dodd entered the Bell Telephone System shortly after graduating from Dartmouth. He first joined the New York Telephone Co. in 1924 and two years later became an engineer for American Telephone and Telegraph Co. He returned to the New York Telephone Co. in 1930 as directory methods and training supervisor. He later became assistant vice-president of the personnel department, general commercial manager of the Manhattan-Bronx-Westchester area, and assistant vice-president in charge of plant and engineering. He has been vicepresident of the company since 1955.

Mr. Dodd is a director of the Empire City Subway, Ltd., and serves as its vicepresident and general manager. He is a trustee of The National Foundation, a director of the New York Board of Trade, and a member of the Manhattan Empire Chapter of the Telephone Pioneers of America and the Committee on Fund Distribution of the Greater New York Fund. He is a member of the board of the Fifth Avenue Association.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Dodd, the former Frances M. Wilson, are natives of East Orange, N. J. They live in Montclair, N. J., and have two daughters.

Mr. Buchanan, president of Appleton Wire Works Corp., Appleton, Wis., has been a member-at-large of the Dartmouth Alumni Council since 1959. He received an M.B.A. degree at Harvard Business School in 1926. He has been a trustee of Lawrence College for many years and has served as president of the board.

Mr. Buchanan is vice-president and director of the Tuttle Press Co. and the First National Bank of Appleton. He is a director and member of the executive committee of American Can Co., New York; Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee; Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. and Employers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Wausau, Wis.; the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co., and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway.

He also is a trustee and member of the executive committee of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Milwaukee; and a director of Breneman-Hartshorn, Inc., Cincinnati; Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co., Fond du Lac; Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Milwaukee; Appleton Coated Paper Co.; and the National Association of Manufacturers.

Mr. Buchanan has two Dartmouth sons, Charles B. Buchanan '53 and William E. Buchanan Jr. '56. He and Mrs. Buchanan, the former Josephine Breneman of Cincinnati, make their home in Menasha, Wis.

Mr. Oelman, president and chief executive officer of the National Cash Register Co., was a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1952 to 1956 and served as its president in 1954-55. He was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Dayton in 1931-33 and was honorary vice-chairman of Dartmouth's 1957 Convocation on Great Issues in the Anglo-Canadian-American Community.

Mr. Oelman was a Senior Fellow at Dartmouth and was graduated summacum laude. He studied economics and international law at the University of Vienna in 1931-32. He joined National Cash Register in 1933 and soon became editor of an overseas newspaper published by the company. He was named assistant to the president in 1942, assistant vice-president in 1945, vice-president in 1946, and executive vice-president in 1950. He became president of the company in 1957 and was appointed chief executive officer this year. His work has required world-wide travel, including recent trips to Africa, the Middle East, Far East, and the Soviet Union.

Mr. Oelman is president of the University of Dayton's Associate Board of Lay Trustees, former vice-president and director of the National Association of Manufacturers, and director and past president of the Office Equipment Manufacturers Institute, Washington. He is a director of Koppers Co., Inc., Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Procter & Gamble Co., and Winters National Bank & Trust Co. in Dayton.

He is director, past president and campaign chairman of the Community Chest Association of Dayton and Montgomery County; a director of the United Community Funds and Councils of America, Inc.; president of Community Research, Inc., Dayton; and a trustee of the Montgomery County Foundation for Medical Research and Education.

Mr. Oelman also has been a violinist in the Dayton Symphony Orchestra. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Dayton and Miami University of Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Oelman, the former Mary Coolidge, have two sons and two daughters.

Unless other nominations are received within two months of this publication of notice of the nominations in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, the names of the three nominees go to the Board of Trustees as nominees of the alumni. Actual election of trustees is the sole responsibility of the Board.

NOMINATING PROCEDURE

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni, or term, Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is quoted herewith:

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry 0f the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees.

If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."

John D. Dodd '22

William E. Buchanan '24

Robert S. Oelman '31