Two New Trustees Take Office

FRANK L. HARRINGTON '24 of Worcester, Mass., was elected a Life Trustee of the College at the winter meeting of the Board in Hanover on January 27. With his election and that of Roswell F. Magill '16 as a Term Trustee (see below) the Board attained its full membership of sixteen, to which it was enlarged (from twelve) last year by authorization of the New Hampshire state legislature and by the Board's own action.

Mr. Harrington is president of the Massachusetts Protective Association, Inc., and of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, which have their home offices in Worcester. After graduating from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa honors, he took his law degree at Harvard in 1927 and went with the Boston firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart. In 1929 he joined the legal staff of Massachusetts Protective and rose to be general counsel before assuming the presidency of this company and affiliated Paul Revere in 1945.

Mr. Harrington was president of the Health and Accident Underwriters Conference, 1949-50; president of the Insurance Economics Society of America, 1951-52; and a director of the Health Insurance Association of America, 1956-61. He is active in Worcester community affairs, including the Legal Aid Society, Hahnemann Hospital, and Community Chest; and is a director of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank, and the Worcester Gas Light Company.

Mr. Harrington was president of the Dartmouth Club of Worcester in 1948-49, and is on the national committee for the Dartmouth Medical School campaign. He has three Dartmouth sons, Frank Jr. '50, Thomas B. '54, and George C. '61.

ROSwELL F. MAGILL '16, New York attorney and former Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, was also elected a Trustee of the College at the January 27 meeting of the Board. Nominated by the Dartmouth Alumni Council, he will fill the unexpired term of Congressman Thomas B. Curtis '32 of St. Louis, who became a Life Trustee last fall.

A nationally known authority on taxation and leading advocate of tax reform, Mr. Magill has been a partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore since 1943. He has been on the law faculties at Chicago and Columbia, and has been visiting professor at Cornell, Harvard, and Stanford. After being special attorney for the Treasury Department in 1923-24 and special adviser to the Puerto Rican Tax Commission in 1925 and 1928-29, Mr. Magill became Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury in 1933-34 and Under Secretarv in 1937-38

Editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth and a Phi Beta Kappa student, Mr. Magill took his law degree at the University of Chicago in 1920, and practiced law in Chicago until 1925. He early turned to taxation as his special interest, and his authority in the field is attested by several books and a great many articles. He was head of a commission to study the British Tax System in 1934, chairman of a special committee appointed by Congress in 1947 to revise the tax laws, chairman of a Connecticut tax commission, and member of a state tax committee for New York. He has served as president of the Tax Foundation, member of the public examining board of the SEC, public governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and president of the University Club of New York. He also has been a trustee of Vassar College, the Academy of Political Science, and the Guggenheim

Mr. Magill received Dartmouth's honorary LL.D. in 1940 and an Alumni Award in 1957. He was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in 1948-49, first president of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association of New York, and an area chairman for the Tucker Foundation Fund. His son, Hugh S. Magill, is a member of the Class of 1953.

Frank L. Harrington '24

Roswell F. Magill '16