1964 Fund Doing Well

Dartmouth's 50th Anniversary Alumni Fund Campaign, launched officially on April 1, was away to its strongest start in history. Totals on April 21 showed $650,000 received from 6500 contributors toward the goal of $1,500,000. These totals put the '64 drive $185,000 and 1300 donors ahead of last year on the same date. The 1963 campaign produced $1,378,947 from 20,972 donors, so Fund officials are optimistic that the anniversary dollar goal will be exceeded and that alumni participation will reach at least 72%.

"We are buying ahead to some extent," Fund Chairman Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 said, "but about one-third of the gifts represent increases over last year and we are gaining in new donors. With 3800 Class Agents at work the Fund Committee is confident that our goal will be reached by June 30."

Major gifts have been an important factor in the early results, with contributions of $l,OOO and up accounting for $276,000. Included was one alumni gift of just over $20,000 and another of $10,000. Eight gifts at the $5,000 level have been received, plus some 125 contributions in the $1,OOO to $5,000 range.

The 1964 Fund total to date was substantially boosted by the $10,000 given to the College by the American Cyanamid Company as Dartmouth's runner-up share of prize money in the "Alumni Fun" TV program. Dartmouth's alumni team of Thomas B. Curtis '32, Robert Ryan '32, and Sylvester (Pat) Weaver '30 went all the way to the finals and then lost a close match to Wisconsin, which got the top prize of $15,000.

The inter-class Green Derby competition, now in its twenty-sixth year, shows these classes leading in their respective groups at mid-April: Group I — 1907, Bob Kenyon, Head Agent; Group II — 1915 led by Duze Lounsberry; Group III - 1921 under Bill Alley; Group IV — 1929 with Ed Chinlund as Agent; Group V — 1938 directed by Wright Mallory; Group VI — 1944 under Phil Penberthy; Group VII — 1950 led by John Dwyer; and Group VIII — 1957 guided by Joe Stevenson.