1965 Fund Seeks $1,800,000

Dartmouth's 51st annual Alumni Fund campaign opens officially April 1 as 4,000 volunteer Class Agents begin active solicitation across the country.

The goal for the 1965 campaign is $1,800,000 — some $175,000 above the record-breaking 50th anniversary Fund of last year, which produced $1,625,000 from over 22,000 alumni, parents, and friends.

Leading the campaign as Fund Chairman is Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, Chairman of the Board of Textron, Incorporated, of Providence, R. 1., who succeeded Charles F. Moore Jr. '25 as Fund Chairman last summer.

The 1965 campaign introduces a new concept to Dartmouth's historic Alumni Funds. Fund goals, beginning this year, are being related directly to the future annual educational budgets of the College. The estimated budget for next year (1965-66) comes to $14,460,000 — and the Fund goal of $1,800,000 represents one-eighth (12%) of this budget, a portion which has held at the same percentage for the past decade. Achievement of this objective will, the Fund Committee emphasizes, enable the Trustees to adopt such a budget and meet needed major budget increases for faculty compensation, library resources, and scholarship programs.

Meetings of Fund workers, with President Dickey and Chairman Thompson as main speakers, were held in late March in Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit. Similar meetings are scheduled for early April in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Dartmouth's three-month Alumni Fund campaign ends officially on June 30 and final results are expected to be announced in early July. Pre-campaign gifts and pledges totaling $501,000 have already been received from just over 2,000 donors - the most encouraging start in Fund history, according to Chairman Thompson.