Braden Nominated for Trustee
AT the June meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, Thomas W. Braden '40 of Oceanside, Calif., was nominated to be an Alumni Trustee of the College. The present Board vacancy, on which the Trustees will take formal action at their fall meeting, was created by the death of Roswell Magill '16 last December.
Mr. Braden, who would become the youngest member of the Board and the only one from the West Coast, is editor and publisher of The Daily Blade-Tribune which serves Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Vista. He has been a member of the California State Board of Education since January 1959 and its president since June 1961. As leader of the successful fight for higher standards for public school teachers he attracted national attention. From 1961 to 1963 he served as a trustee of the California State Colleges.
Mr. Braden, a native of Dubuque, lowa, was editor of The Dartmouth when in college. After the war, in which he served first as an infantry platoon leader in the British 8th Army and then as a parachutist with the U.S. Army's OSS, he returned to Dartmouth as Instructor in English in 1946-47. He was assistant to President Dickey in 1947-48 and served as executive secretary of the Great Issues Course in its first year.
Mr. Braden went to New York to be executive secretary of the Museum of Modern Art in 1948-49. He was executive director of the American Committee on United Europe, under General William J. Donovan, from 1949 to 1951; and then was assistant to Allen W. Dulles, director of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 until 1954, when he purchased The Daily Blade-Tribune. In addition to writing for several national magazines, Mr. Braden is coauthor, with Stewart Alsop, of SubRosa, the OSS history published in 1946.
The Bradens have five daughters and three sons. Mrs. Braden, the former Joan Ridley, was at one time assistant to Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association, the responsibility for nominating Alumni Trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by alumni at large by means of announcement in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE of any vacancy on the Board of Trustees and of any nominee chosen by the Alumni Council. The constitution further provides:
"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."
Thomas W. Braden '40
