Fund Running Ahead
As the first month of the 1963 Alumni Fund campaign drew to a close, the Fund was running $100,000 and 700 donors ahead of last year's record campaign. A total of $475,000 had been contributed by 5,450 alumni, parents, and friends. The amount in hand by late April was 38% of the goal of $1,250,000 to be raised by June 30.
The Dartmouth Parents Campaign, a part of the Alumni Fund, was also running well ahead of last year, with 400 gifts totaling $21,000 received, a gain of $9,000 and 100 donors over the same period last year.
Fund Chairman Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 hailed the current results as "most encouraging," but went on to say, "It is the hope of the Committee that we can maintain our lead and even add to it. Last year we raised $1,215,000, so the Committee this year hopes to go well beyond our goal by raising $1,300,000 to $1,350,000. The potential is certainly there, for to date just over 5,000 of our 30,000 alumni have donated."
The traditional Green Derby competition is again in full swing with these classes leading at the end of the third week in April: Veteran Group - The Class of 1894, Head Agent Philip S. Marden; Group I-1907, Head Agent Robert D. Kenyon; Group II — 1915, Head Agent Harold H. Lounsberry; Group III — 1921, Head Agent William M. Alley; Group IV - 1930, Head Agent Arthur M. Browning; Group V - 1937, Head Agent Jerome H. Low; Group VI - 1943, Head Agent George B. Munroe; Group VII - 1951, Head Agent Richard H. Rogers; and Group VIII - 1956, Head Agent Leonard J. Clark Jr.
Some 3,300 Class Agents and assistants are serving the 1963 drive - the largest organization in Fund history. More than 800 of these volunteer workers attended Class Agents meetings held in late March and early April in nine major alumni centers across the country.
The May Alumni Fund Committee mailing, being sent to all non-contributors, features a message by President Dickey summing up some of the achievements that made the current year an "historic" one. In concluding his message Mr. Dickey writes: "It is due each of us and in the deepest sense due Dartmouth not to let such a year pass without acknowledging that it is a proud measure of that fulfillment toward which so many have contributed and for which we all work. Here is the evidence that we are what Dartmouth will be.
"The quality of our concern, expressed in service or gift, is the stuff of the meaningful life whereof this institution, this Dartmouth, is great; indifference is the only leveler whereby it can be diminished. This is the wonderful promise the Alumni Fund keeps."
