Trustees and Councilors Hold a Combined Meeting
AN exceptionally strong turnout of members and a full working program marked the joint meeting of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth Alumni Council in Hanover on January 25-27. With the exception of its one ex-officio member, Governor Wesley Powell, the Board had 100% attendance for its winter session, and 38 of the Council's present membership of 48 alumni were present.
Carrying out a recommendation of the CAR report, a joint meeting of the Trustees and the "senate" of Dartmouth's alumni was first held two winters ago. This second such gathering included one joint session, addressed by President Dickey; a joint dinner; and separate meetings of the two bodies.
Following afternoon and evening committee meetings on Thursday, January 25, the combined session was held Friday morning in the Sanborn House library, with Ellwood H. Fisher '21 of Cleveland, president of the Alumni Council, presiding. President Dickey's talk dealt with the problem of maintaining institutional purpose and identity in the face of modern pushes toward fragmentation, and he made a strong plea for knowing and strengthening this central purpose in an undergraduate liberal arts college such as Dartmouth.
John D. Dodd '22, chairman of the Alumni Fund Committee, reported on the early stages of the 1962 campaign and recommended a dollar goal of $1,250,000, later officially approved by the Council. The third speaker of the morning was Charles J. Zimmerman '23, chairman of the Trustee Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs, who reviewed the Capital Gifts Campaign, of which he was national chairman, and discussed some of the programs being planned to bring alumni into closer touch with the educational work of the College.
Separate meetings of the Trustees and Alumni Council were held Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, with more committee meetings tucked in at lunch and breakfast. The joint dinner in Commons on Friday night, attended by many College officers and faculty members as well as by the wives of Trustees and the Alumni Council members was featured by a panel discussion on Russia, with Provost John W. Masland as chairman. Panelists were Trustee Thomas B. Curtis '32, U. S. Congressman from Missouri; Councilor John Turkevich '28, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton; Prof. John C. Adams of the History Department; and Prof. Robert A. Maguire '51 of the Department of Russian Civilization.
A balcony view of the joint session in Sanborn House Library
Ell-wood H. Fisher '21 (left), president of the Alumni Council, with Charles F.McGoughran '20 (center), past president of the Council, and Trustee John D.Dodd '22, chairman of the 1962 Alumni Fund Committee. Their huddle justprior to the opening session was concerned with a serious matter, it would appear.
