Fund Goal: $1,250,000

A GOAL of $1,250,000 has been set for the 1962 Dartmouth Alumni Fund, according to an announcement last month by John D. Dodd '22, a Trustee of the College and chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee. The objective, largest in history, was recommended to the Dartmouth Alumni Council by the Fund Committee at the Council's January meeting and was unanimously approved.

One million dollars of the overall goal is expected to come from the Dartmouth alumni through their class campaigns. The remaining $250,000 is the estimated amount to be received from the Dartmouth Parents Campaign plus memorial gifts and income from class memorial and other endowment funds.

Last year's campaign lifted Dartmouth for the first time into the million-dollar class with Fund contributions totaling $1,015,545. These results put the Dartmouth Alumni Fund into a group with Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale as the top six annual funds in the nation in total dollars.

In announcing the 1962 goal Chairman Dodd reported at the same time that year-end pledges and gifts to this year's Fund were running far ahead of any previous year. Late February figures show cash gifts from 850 donors totaling $180,000 and $57,000 in pledges from 175 contributors for a combined total of 1,025 gifts and pledges amounting to $237,000. This represented a cash gain of $60,000 over the best previous results, achieved last year at this time.

In establishing the 1962 goal the Fund Committee took into account the College's need for $1,050,000 to balance its 1961-62 operating budget, the traditional task of the annual Alumni Fund. But for the first time since the Fund was started in 1915, the Committee decided to take a dramatic and important step forward by moving into some future financing of Dartmouth programs. The remaining $200,000 from 1962 Fund proceeds is being sought as "seed money" to help underwrite or expand programs in three major areas which are critical to Dartmouth's quality growth. These are the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, book acquisitions for Baker Library, and additional resources for the Hopkins Center programs.

A team of 3,000 class agents is now being organized to help conduct the three-month Alumni Fund Campaign which opens on April 1 and ends June 30.

Woodhouse Nominated To Continue as Trustee

AT the January meeting of the Dart mouth Alumni Council in Hanover, John C. Woodhouse '21 of Wilmington, Del., was nominated to succeed himself as an Alumni Trustee of the College. Mr. Woodhouse was nominated by the Council and elected by the Board two years ago to fill an unexpired term. He is now eligible for election to his first full term of five years beginning July 1.

Mr. Woodhouse is a top research scientist for the DuPont Company and has had a brilliant career there for more than thirty years. He is the holder of more than sixty patents in chemical engineering and applied biological subjects. He has been a key figure in the invention of hydraulic fluids, automobile anti-freeze, Nylon and its derivatives, and Lucite. Before joining DuPont in 1928, Mr. Woodhouse engaged in an academic career, teaching chemistry at Dartmouth and later at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D. degree in 1927. He is a former member of the Alumni Council, an Overseer of the Thayer School, a recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1957, and has long been active in the Dartmouth Club of Delaware.

Nominating Procedure

According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large:

"Said secretary shall also give notice, not less than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominate Alumni Trustee or Trustees to take office on the first Monday after Commencement.

"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 signature for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of 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, and the polls shall close on June 10 before Commencement.

"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 (r), 1962 Alumni Fund chairman, and (l to r) committee membersJohn W. Moxon '29, George F. Jewett Jr. '50, Forrest C. Billings '29, and M. CarterStrickland '29. Present at the Alumni Council meeting but not pictured were HenryR. Bankart '35, Robert J. Strasenburgh '42, and Clifford L. Jordan '45.