Year-End Fund Reports

A YEAR-END report on the Capital Gifts Campaign shows that approximately $16,200,000 of the $17,575,000 raised in gifts and pledges has actually been received by the College. Of the 18,500 alumni, parents and friends who made gifts, 14,500 have now fully completed their pledges, and the remainder will complete them during the next six months.

The Alumni Fund also had a bright report as 1961 came to a close. The 1962 Fund, with year-end gifts and pledges totaling just under $100,000, is off to the strongest start in the Fund's history. This total from more than 500 contributors is $40,000 greater than the best previous year-end figure, achieved last year.

Chairman John D. Dodd '22 reports that the improved results are due in large measure to special Alumni Fund committees that have been at work during the fall seeking gifts from selected alumni before the end of the tax year. These committees have been headed by Donald F. Sawyer '21 in Boston, Roger C. Wilde '21 in Chicago, William H. Bemis 'l8 in Cleveland, and Francis H. Horan '22 and Lawrence Marx Jr. '36 in New York. In addition to these organized committees, individual alumni leaders across the country have undertaken special solicitation in fifteen other alumni centers.

The Alumni Fund Committee meets in Hanover this month at the time of the regula winter sessions of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. It will set a dollar goal for the 1962 campaign opening officially on April 1.