A Record Alumni Fund
The 1962 Alumni Fund goes into the record books as the most successful in the Fund’s 48-year history, despite the fact that it fell slightly short of its goal.
Final totals show $1,215,740 contributed by 21,392 donors both record highs for Dartmouth. Alumni participation was 69%, only slightly less than the 71% participation recorded by the 1957 campaign.
Although missing the goal of $1,250,000 by some $34,000, the dollar total was a 20% increase over the $1,015,545 recorded by the 1961 Fund and the contributor gain was equally impressive. There were 19,340 alumni donors this year (a record), 1,128 parent contributors, and 924 donors of memorial gifts. Alumni gifts amounted to $1,018,718, more than last year’s grand total.
The amount raised enabled the College to balance its 1961-62 books and to allocate $165,740 to be used this year (1962-63) for Baker Library books and as program funds for the Hopkins Center and the William Jewett Tucker Foundation.
As might be expected, most alumni classes made new Fund records of their own. Forty-five classes had new dollar highs, and of these fifteen set percent-of-objective records. Thirty-six classes reached or bettered their assigned dollar goals; 25 classes had 100% or more in participation; 24 recorded new class participation totals; and eight had contributor records.
Four Dartmouth classes 1926, 1927, 1925, and 1929 exceeded $40,000 each, the first time any class has reached this level. The Class of 1926, under Head Agent Reginald W. Hanson, won the John H. Davis Trophy with $46,135, an all-time high for any Dartmouth class.
The Class of 1921, led by William M. Alley, had the largest number of major gifts ($l,OOO and up) with fifteen, while 1925, Laurence G. Leavitt head agent, led in Century Club members with 139 donors of $lOO or more.
The Green Derby competition was close in most groups with these classes emerging victorious: Group 1—1915, Harold H. Lounsberry, head agent; Group 11—1921, William M. Alley; Group 111 1927^ Lawrence W. Scammon; Group IV— 1940, John B. Moore; Group V 1942, Warren G. Kreter; Group Vl 1953, Edward J. Spiegel; and Group VII 1957, Thomas H. Schwarz.
President Dickey hailed the 1962 Fund results as “proof that Dart- mouth will be kept strong enough to reach out in any competition for those opportunities which mean the difference between distinction and just being ‘good enough.’ ”
A detailed report on the 1962 Alumni Fund will be published as a spe- cial insert in next month’s issue.
The Field House showing progress at the south end of Memorial Field.
