Landauer Heads Alumni Council
FORTY-SEVEN of the fifty members of the Dartmouth Alumni Council -t he the best attendance record the Council has ever had - were in Hanover for the 108 th meeting of the alumni "senate" June 17 to 19.
N. Page Worthington '33 of Baltimore presided over three sessions of the Council and at their conclusion turned the president's gavel over to James D. Landauer '23 of New York City who was elected to head the Council for the coming year.
Mr. Landauer, chairman of the board of James D. Landauer Associates, is one of the country's leading real estate consultants. President of the Real Estate Board of New York and past president of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, he is presently on leave from his own firm to direct the realty operations of the late Erwin S. Wolfson and to serve as president of Grand Central Building, Inc., the Anglo-American corporation that erected the $100 million Pan Am Building in New York. He is also a director of the International Real Estate Federation.
To serve as vice president during 1964-65 the Council elected Carl P. Ray '37 of New York, vice president and a director of the Royal McBee Corporation. Sidney C. Hayward '26 of Hanover was reelected secretary. The executive committee includes the three elected officers, plus Chesley T. Bixby '23 of Haverhill, Mass., and Emil Mosbacher Jr. '43 of New York.
Charles W. Bartlett '27 of Boston was reelected to a three-year term as alumni member of the Dartmouth Athletic Council, and Mr. Mosbacher was named representative on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn until June 30, 1965.
Five new members-at-large were elected by the Council to fill the vacancies created by the completion of three-year terms by John Turkevich '28, Henry R. Bankart Jr. '35, Robert T. Keeler '36, David S. Smith '39, and George F. Jewett Jr. '50. The new Council members are George I. Davis '28 of Glens Falls, N. Y.; John B. Kenerson '28 of Boston; Shepard A. Stone '29 of New York; Henry J. McCarthy '31 of Boston; and Ralph Lazarus '35 of Cincinnati, Ohio.
As has been the case in recent years, the Alumni Council's annual June meeting took place during Reunion Week. A reception in the President's garden preceded the dinner that opened the three-day program on Wednesday evening. Council members, their wives, and College guests heard an after-dinner talk on "Teaching at Dartmouth" by Walter H. Stockmayer, Class of 1925 Professor of Chemistry, and also applauded the presentation of Dartmouth Alumni Awards to Windsor C. Batchelder '19 of Darien, Conn., and Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28 of Denver (see next page).
Thursday morning, from 8 o'clock breakfast through luncheon, was devoted to meetings of Council committees dealing with the Alumni Fund, enrollment and admissions, Alumni Awards, regional organization, class gifts to the College, bequest and estate planning, and public relations. That afternoon the full Council heard Ellis O. Briggs '21, chairman, and J. Michael McGean '49, director, discuss this summer's Alumni College; and also heard Dean Waldo Chamberlain talk about Project A.B.C. and other programs scheduled for the Summer Term.
Committee reports filled out the afternoon session and carried over into the Friday morning session. A report on a revised constitution for the Athletic Council resulted in Alumni Council approval, which followed that of Palaeopitus, the executive committee of the faculty, and the Board of Trustees and thus made the changes official.
Under the revision, the DCAC now has responsibility for intramural athletics and physical education in addition to the intercollegiate athletics which were its only responsibility before. Its membership, formerly consisting of three faculty members, three alumni, three undergraduates, and the Director of Athletics, has been broadened with the addition of the College Treasurer, the Dean of the College, and the Medical Director. The Athletic Council will continue to be advisory to the President and Trustees but in place of general operating responsibilities it will now have specific responsibility for approving policy, programs, and professional personnel. As a fourth change, the DCAC now has an executive committee, with the Director of Athletics as ex-officio chairman, which has authority to act for the full Council in the intervals between Council meetings.
At the conclusion of committee reports the Council heard President Dickey's "State of the College" talk, always the high point of the Alumni Council's annual meeting. The President announced the gift of $500,000 by Peter Kiewit '22 of Omaha to be used toward the purchase of the new computer and the construction of a building to house the College's Computation Center. He also disclosed that the Trustees had named the new facility the Kiewit Computation Center.
The greater part of President Dickey's talk was devoted to the principles of academic freedom that guide the College in its daily work and in the off-campus activities of faculty members and undergraduates. The civil rights issue has enlarged the sphere of such off-campus activity, he pointed out, and has led to some protests by alumni and others - on both sides of the issue. It ought to be clear to nearly everyone, he said, that the writings and actions of individuals associated with the College do not constitute institutional policy. But if the College is to maintain its traditional integrity as a free marketplace for the examination of ideas and the search for truth, it must stand ready to defend the individual's right to engage in. responsible action growing out of sincere belief. Council members warmly applauded his statement of principle.
Among the committee chairmen who will direct Alumni Council programs for the coming year, Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28 of Providence, R. I., will head the important Alumni Fund Committee. David P. Smith '35 of San Francisco is the new chairman for regional organization, and Lawrence Marx Jr. '36 of New York the new chairman for class gifts to the College.
Full committee assignments for the coming year are as follows:
Alumni Fund: Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, Providence, R. I., chairman; Frank T. Kennedy '25, Short Hills, N. J.; Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Orleans, Mass.; Thomas G. Murdough '26, Chicago; Robert L. Maclellan '28, Chattanooga, Tenn.; John K. Benson '31, Boston; Sidney Stoneman '33, Boston; Ralph Lazarus '35, Cincinnati, Ohio; David D. Williams '35, Detroit; William H. McElnea Jr. '44, New York; Clifford L. Jordan Jr. '45, Hanover, secretary.
Bequest and Estate Planning: Charles E. Brundage '16, New York, chairman; Victor C. Smith '17, Philadelphia; Erwin C. Miller '20, Worcester, Mass.; Chesley T. Bixby '23, Haverhill, Mass.; John B. Kenerson '28, Boston; Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30, Portland, Me.; William F. Steck '31, Cleveland, Ohio; Ford H. Whelden '25, Hanover, secretary. Consulting Members: Roger C. Wilde '21, Woodstock, Vt.; John F. Meek '33, Hanover.
Class Gifts to the College: Lawrence Marx Jr. '36, New York, chairman; Herbert F. Darling '26, Buffalo, N. Y.; Henry J. McCarthy '31, Boston; Robinson Bosworth Jr. '37, Milwaukee; Robert J. Strasenburgh II '42, Rochester, N. Y.; Emil Mosbacher Jr. '43, New York; Michael R. Pender '47, Garden City, N. Y.; Charles E. Breed '51, Hanover, secretary.
Enrollment and Admissions: Neil F. Roberts '35, Denver, chairman; Robert C. Hardy '25, Sarasota, Fla.; Thomas G. Murdough '26, Chicago; George I. Davis '28, Glens Falls, N. Y.; John B. Kenerson '28, Boston; William F. Steck '31, Cleveland, Ohio; Morrison G. Tucker '32, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Harry B. Gilmore Jr. '34, Manchester, N. H.; David P. Smith '35, San Francisco; Richard J. Hefler '36, Los Angeles; Robinson Bosworth Jr. '37, Milwaukee; Philip B. Swain '37, Seattle, Wash.; Edward F. Perrin '38, Hartford, Conn.; Stuart L. MacPhail '40, Minneapolis; George E. Flather Jr. '41, Washington, D. C.; Ernest D. Grinnell Jr. '42, St. Louis, Mo.; James W. Lain '42, Houston, Texas; James D. Elleman '43, Morristown, N. J.; Wayne T. Eves '44, Omaha, Neb.; Michael R. Pender '47, Garden City, N. Y.; Russell C. Dilks '51, Philadelphia; Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, Hanover, secretary.
Nominating: Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Orleans, Mass., chairman; James D. Landauer '23, New York; Carl P. Ray '37, New York; Sidney C. Hayward '26, Hanover; John K. Benson '31, Boston; Robert J. Strasenburgh II '42, Rochester, N. Y.; Zebulon W. White '36, New Haven, Conn.
Public Relations: William H. Scherman '34, New York, chairman; James D. Landauer '23, New York; Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Orleans, Mass.; Shepard A. Stone '29, New York; Carl P. Ray '37, New York; Robert B. Jones Jr. '38, Baltimore, Md.; George O'Connell, Hanover, secretary. Consulting Members: Charles A. Palmer '23, Los Angeles; Eugene Katz '28, New York; S. Heagan Bayles '33, New York; Jerry A. Danzig '34, New York; John L. Steele '39, Washington, D. C.; Oliver A. Quayle 3rd '42, Bronxville, N. Y.; David Y. Picker '53, New York.
Regional Organization: David P. Smith '35, San Francisco, chairman; Herbert F. Darling '26, Buffalo, N. Y.; Morrison G. Tucker '32, Oklahoma City, Okla.; George N. Farrand '33, New York; Harry B. Gilmore Jr. '34, Manchester, N. H.: Edward B. Hinman '35, Montreal, Que.; Zebulon W. White '36, New Haven, Conn.; Russell C. Dilks '51, Philadelphia; J. Michael McGean '49, Hanover, secretary.
James D. Landauer '23
