49th Alumni Fund Begins

DARTMOUTH'S 49th annual Alumni Fund campaign officially gets under way on April 1, and from advance indications the 1963 results should be the best ever. Fund Chairman Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 reported a mid-March total of $362,784 in advance gifts and pledges from 1,500 contributors. This put the current drive ahead of the 1962 campaign on this date by $110,000 and by 380 donors.

The Hanover Fund office reports that some 3,000 alumni have already agreed to serve as class agents for the campaign and that the final total for agents is expected to reach 3,500, the largest class agent organization in Fund history.

The goal for the 1963 Fund, as approved by the Alumni Fund Committee and the Dartmouth Alumni Council, is $1,250,000 - the same as last year when the campaign received $1,215,740. Chairman Moore emphasized that this represented a minimum goal and that the Fund Committee and head agents were confident that this goal would be exceeded.

Of the $1,250,000 being sought before the June 30 deadline, $1,100,000 is needed to help the College meet 1962-63 current operating expenses, an amount representing 9% of the total budget for the year. The remaining $150,000 will be allocated 1963-64 funds to further assist the programs of the Hopkins Center, Baker Library, and the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. This continues the assistance provided to these areas by some receipts of the 1962 campaign.

Dartmouth alumni are being asked to contribute one million dollars in 1963, with the balance of $250,000 expected to come from gifts of parents and friends and from the income from Class Memorial Funds and other endowed funds.

The parents of all Dartmouth undergraduates and recent graduates are being solicited through a special Parents Fund headed by Ralph E. Becker, a Washington, D.C., attorney, who is the father of William W. Becker '64. Assisting Mr. Becker is a 143-member Parents Committee, the largest group ever organized to promote this area of the Alumni Fund. The campaign among Dartmouth parents also has made a fine start and in late March had more than twice the amount collected at the same date last year.

In recent weeks, from March 21 to April 4, the Alumni Fund Committee has sponsored class agent meetings in nine alumni centers - Los Angeles, San

Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Participating in these meetings were President Dickey, Fund Chairman Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Trustee John C. Woodhouse '21 (who represented the Fund Committee at the West Coast meetings), and Clifford L. Jordan Jr. '45, executive secretary of the Fund.

The opening appeal for the 1963 campaign went into the mails to all alumni in monthly appeals from the Fund Committee to non-contributors until the June 30 deadline.

Members of the 1963 Alumni Fund Committee are: Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Chairman; Frank T. Kennedy '25, Thomas G. Murdough '26, Forrest C. Billings '28, John W. Moxon '29, M. Carter Strickland '29, John K. Benson '31, Henry R. Bankart '35, Robert J. Strasenburgh II '42, and George F. Jewett Jr. '50.

Serving the Alumni Fund Office in Hanover are Clifford L. Jordan Jr. 45, executive secretary; Parker F. Soule Jr. '31, and Charles E. Breed '51.