Alumni Council's Winter Meeting
Two informal talks by President Dickey - one at the opening business session, dealing with the history, organization and desirable qualifications of the Board of Trustees, and the other at the dinner that night, dealing with the ideal of the teacher-scholar and the evidences of concerned teaching at Dartmouth - were major parts of the program that kept the Dartmouth Alumni Council busy during its three-day winter gathering in Hanover, January 28-30.
Once again attendance at the Council meeting was impressive, with 41 of the full membership of 50 present. Councilors from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, and Denver were there, along with the member who lives just across the river in Norwich, Vt. Twenty- three former members of the Council also attended.
Alumni Council President James D. Landauer '23 of New York presided at this 109th meeting of the Council. A reception at the home of President and Mrs. Dickey and dinner at the Hanover Inn preceded art evening of committee meetings on Thursday, January 28. The Council's very first action after the calling of the roll at Friday morning's opening business session was a resolution, unanimously adopted, expressing its getwell wishes to Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College and secretary of the Council, who was absent because of illness. Mr. Landauer noted that the secretary was missing his first Council meeting in 35 years but had made his usual careful preparations so the 109th session would run smoothly.
In his remarks about the Board of Trustees, President Dickey explained how the Board had grown from its original twelve to its present sixteen members, and emphasized that a controlling factor in size is the desire to keep the Board a small, integrated, working group. This invaluable quality of the Board would be lost, he said, if membership were decided on any representational basis, such as characterizes the membership of the Alumni Council. Each Trustee brings to the Board his own special strength, President Dickey added, and the effectiveness of the Dartmouth Board rests in the concern that each member has for the whole broad spectrum of College affairs and in the freedom each has to act according to his own conscience and the best interests of Dartmouth College. The President concluded with some description of committee assignments, the occasional need of special individual service, and the complete lack of distinction between Life Trustees and the so-called Alumni or Term Trustees in the work of the Board.
The rest of the morning session was devoted to the Council's discussion of its criteria and procedures in making Trustee nominations to the Board. Since 1915 the Council has been empowered by the Board to make nominations for the Alumni Trustees, who now number seven and who usually serve two five-year terms. Seven Life Trustees, the President of the College, and the Governor of New Hampshire ex officio round out the 16- man Board. A report on its nominating responsibilities will be presented to the Council by its executive committee in June.
After lunch, the Council heard from Trustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23, former Council member, former Alumni Fund chairman, and chairman of the Trustees' Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs, who reported on future development and fund-raising matters which have been studied thoroughly by ten CAPA subcommittees.
Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, chairman of the 1965 Alumni Fund Committee, reported on the meeting his committee had held the night before and proposed a goal of $1,800,000 for the 1965 campaign. The Council voted its approval of this goal, an increase of $300,000 over last year's objective and $175,000 more than was actually raised last year.
Other reports to the Council were given by Lawrence Marx Jr. '36, chairman of the Class Gifts Committee; Charles E. Brundage '16, chairman of the Bequest and Estate Planning Committee; Neil Roberts '35, chairman of the Enrollment and Admissions Committee; David P. Smith '35, chairman of the Regional Organization Committee; and William H. Scherman '34, chairman of the Public Relations Committee.
At the Council dinner in Alumni Hall that evening, Dartmouth Alumni Awards were presented by Mr. Landauer to Laurence G. Leavitt '25 of Norwich, Vt., and M. Carter Strickland '29 of Oneida, N. Y., both former members of the Council (see their class columns for citations) .
In his dinner remarks, President Dickey said that good teaching and good research are not incompatible and are, in fact, desirable in tandem as reinforcing each other. He pointed out that the teacher comes first in the hyphenated term teacher-scholar, and expressed the conviction that this is the true state of affairs at Dartmouth. As evidences of the personal concern that Dartmouth professors have for their undergraduate students, he said that the science faculty, which has the highest proportion of research scholars, provides the greatest number of volunteers for freshman advisory service; and he also read a selection of the special citations written by the faculty each term to commend students for exceptionally fine work.
On Saturday morning, Council members heard from Carl P. Ray '37, senior member of the Athletic Council; Prof. Donald Bartlett '24, faculty representa- tive on the Council; and J. Michael McGean '49, director of Alumni College. President Landauer named a committee of four members - Professor Bartlett, Shepard A. Stone '29, Harry B. Gilmore Jr. '34, and Zebulon W. White '36 —to study the possibility of strengthening the relationships between the Dartmouth faculty and the Council, and to bring in a progress report in June.
The program concluded with a visit to the new Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory and then to Fairbanks Hall, where the College's new filmstrip about Project ABC was shown.
Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 (l) receives firstAlumni Fund "Indian Statue Award" forhis '63 and '64 Fund leadership fromTrustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23.
