Alumni Fund Holds Its Pace With $600,000

A LATE May report showed that the 1962 Alumni Fund Campaign was continuing to accelerate and had topped the $600,000 mark as it headed into the June stretch drive.

The total on May 23 stood at $601,600 from 9,731 donors. This represented gains of $144,000 in dollars and 1,686 in contributors over the 1961 campaign on the same date.

Fund officials reported that income from Class Memorial Funds and other endowed funds should amount to about $150,000, and that additional gifts totaling $500,000 would have to be produced during the remaining five weeks in order to achieve the 1962 goal of $1,250,000.

Most alumni classes have reached over half of their assigned dollar goals, with participation totals running slightly behind, about 40%. Competition in the traditional Green Derby races is very close with these classes leading in their respective groups on May 23: Group I (Classes 1912-1918) - 1915 with Harold H. Lounsberry as head agent; Group II (Classes 1919-1925) - 1921, William M. Alley, head agent; Group III (Classes 1926-1932) - 1929, M. Carter Strickland, head agent; Group IV (Classes 1933-1940) - 1935, George E. Goodman, head agent; Group V (Classes 1941- 1947) - Warren G. Kreter, head agent; Group VI (Classes 1948-1954)- 1952, E. John Rosenwald Jr., head agent (1952 became the first class to go over its assigned dollar goal this year); Group VII (Classes 1955-1961) - 1958, Ronald L. Snow, head agent.

Alumni Fund Chairman John D. Dodd '22 cites the efforts by the more than 3,000 class agents as a major factor in the results so far.

"The results to date are most encouraging," reports Mr. Dodd, "but June will tell the story. We must raise a half-million dollars in a little more than one month and it will take the combined efforts of our class officers, class agents, and many thousands of alumni to reach the goal. But the goal is important only as it relates to the greater opportunities it will make possible for our College. I am confident that Dartmouth men will do their part toward this end."

The June Alumni Fund Committee mailing, presenting a report on the Hopkins Center (see page 14 in this issue), was scheduled to go into the mails the end of May. This will be followed by a final mail reminder in mid-June and a late June telephone campaign which will be organized in the New York, Boston, Chicago, and Cleveland areas.

The 1962 Fund Campaign ends officially on June 30 and final totals will be reported in late July. Last year's total exceeded one million dollars for the first time in Fund history, and the May 23 report indicates a new record in the making if the pace holds.