The Darthmouth Alumni Fund REPORT 1963-1964 1915 Golden Anniversary 1964

CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

I make this report on the Dartmouth Alumni Fund's 50th Anniversary Campaign to you on behalf of the tenmember Alumni Fund Committee and the 4,000 other Dartmouth men who worked on the 1964 Campaign as Head Agents, Newsletter Editors, Class Officers, Class Agents and special Regional Committee members.

The Golden Anniversary Campaign raised $1,624,810 from 22,437 alumni, parents and friends. This was $124,810 above our $1,500,000 goal and $245,863 more than the record $1,378,947 produced in 1963.

Our total of 22,437 donors was also a new Fund record, and we achieved a 70% alumni participation figure, the best since before the Capital Gifts Campaign.

Class achievements and class records were both historic and numerous. A total of 44 of 60 classes reached or exceeded their assigned class dollar goals, while 32 classes recorded 100% or better on participation. 44 classes achieved new dollar records, seven classes set percent of objective records, 23 classes reached class participation records and eight classes gained new contributor highs. Results for all classes, the final Green Derby standings and, appropriate indications of class records are detailed on the following two pages.

I am proud to report that my own Class of 1925 again led all classes in total dollars - $58,479 - a new high for any class - to retain the Davis Trophy. Ably guided by Head Agent Larry Leavitt, 1925 also led in the number of Century Club members with a record 150. Two other classes, 1927 under Bob Stevens and 1931 with Sher Guernsey, also raised more than $50,000 each in our Golden Anniversary Campaign. A particular salute is due 1931 which made a special effort this year to secure major gifts, with George Nickum helping Sher Guernsey. The class doubled the amount raised last year and climbed from the Group IV cellar to first place!

The Class of 1921, headed by Bill Alley, won the Group III Derby and also tied the classes of 1927 and 1929 in the number of $1,000 and up donors with 13. The Class of 1939, celebrating its 25th year reunion, raised $45,991 for the Alumni Fund as part of the $125,000 total achieved its final year, and guided by co-chairmen Irv Naitove and Junie Merriam, ranked second in Century Club members with 134.

The youngest alumni classes dominated the contributor and participation side with Joe Stevenson leading the Class of 1957 to a first place tie with the Class of 1961 in the Group VIII Green Derby while setting a new Fund record of 570 donors. The Class of 1953, under Ed Condit, ranked second with 562 contributors, while 1952, led by John Klein took first place in Group VII and ranked third with 538 donors. 1952 also led all classes in percent of dollar objective with 158%, followed by the Class of 1940, Bob Lake, Head Agent, with 154% of their dollar goal.

Dartmouth parents went over $50,000 for the first time since before the Capital Gifts Campaign as 1,368 Parents contributed $50,248 to the Campaign. The Parents Committee was headed for the second year by Mr. Ralph Becker of Washington, D. C.

This is my final report as your Fund Chairman. In the two years I have served, your gifts in support of the Fund have totaled just over $3-million, an amount representing the margin of excellence for our College. I extend my deepest thanks to every member of the Dartmouth fellowship who worked and contributed to this great cause. I am particularly grateful to the Fund Committee for the support and leadership they brought to these record campaigns. The Alumni Fund has now reached another historic milestone and a level of maturity which holds even more promise for future years. I know my successor as Fund Chairman, Rupert C. Thompson, Jr. '28, will lead us to even greater accomplishments.

Finally, I thank the President of our College, John Dickey '29, for his untiring efforts in behalf of the Fund. He has helped us plan, he has traveled the circuit meeting with our Fund workers and above all he has given us the kind of leadership which inspires all Dartmouth men to want to serve her cause and her search for pre-eminence.

It is entirely appropriate that I end this report by sharing with you a portion of the President's message to all Fund workers:

"Some 4,000 other Dartmouth workers do know what you did because they did it too. Likewise some twenty-two thousand Dartmouth men, wives and parents share the satisfaction you know in having given nothing less than a measure of immortal life to the College. I am sure it is not loose exaggeration to say that each Fund worker and each contributor has given just that - a measure of immortality - to Dartmouth. None of us could do that on his own. The Fund can do it and does it because it has a life of its own that transcends our individual lives and will never die so long as there is a Dartmouth cause and a Dartmouth family to serve that cause."

1964 ALUMNI FUND STATEMENT Receipts: 19,875 Alumni Gifts $1,382,045 85% 1,368 Parent Gifts 50,248 3 1,194 Memorial & Miscellaneous Gifts 50,783 3 Memorial Fund Income 141,734 9 22,437 Total Gifts for: $1,624,810 100% Applied To: 1963-64 College Operating Expenses $1,161,718 71.5% 1963-64 Fund Campaign Expenses 138,282 8.5 Total applied to 1963-64 College Operating Expenses $1,300,000 80.0% Construction of Mezzanine and Rebuilding Periodical Room in Baker Library 100,000 6.2 Reserve Funds to meet other urgent needs 224,810 13.8 Totals $1,624,810 100%