Tucker Heads Alumni Council

THE 1965-66 program of the Dartmouth Alumni Council will be directed by Morrison G. Tucker '32 of Oklahoma City, Okla., who was elected president of Dartmouth's top alumni organization at its annual business meeting in Hanover on June 18. He succeeds James D. Landauer '23 of New York City, who presided over three days of Alumni Council meetings during the June reunion week.

Mr. Tucker is executive vice president of the Liberty National Bank and Trust Company in Oklahoma City. He joined the bank in 1951 as vice president and assumed his present position in 1958. Before going to Oklahoma City the Council's new president was banking adviser to the President of the Philippines, 1944-47, and manager of the Venezuelan interests of the Rockefeller family, 1947-51. He is a director of the Big Chief Drilling Company, Mid-America Minerals, Home State Life Insurance Company, the Oklahoma Medical Re- search Foundation, and the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma from 1957 to 1961.

To serve as its vice president for the coming year the Alumni Council elected Thomas G. Murdough '26 of Chicago, president of the American Hospital Sup- ply Corporation. To fill the post of secretary, held for 35 years by the late Sidney C. Hayward '26, the Council elected J. Michael McGean '49, Associate Secretary of the College. The executive committee includes the elected officers and four other members: George I. Davis '28 of Glens Falls, N. Y.; Henry J. McCarthy '31 of Boston; Lawrence Marx Jr. '36 of New York City; and Philip B. Swain '37 of Seattle, Wash.

William H. Morton '32 of New York City was elected to a three-year term as alumni member of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council, and Sidney Stoneman '33 of Boston was named representative on the Hanover Inn's Board of Overseers until June 30, 1966.

Four new members-at-large were elected by the Council to fill the vacancies created by the completion of three year terms by James D. Landauer '23, Frank T. Kennedy '25, Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, and Edward B. Hinman '35. The new members are Eugene J. Katz '28 of New York City, F. Warren Miller Jr. '40 of Springfield, Mass., William G. Wrightson '40 of New York City, and Proctor H. Page Jr. '42 of Burlington, Vt.

The Council's annual June gathering in Hanover again enjoyed excellent attendance by both present and past members. Forty of the Council's fifty members from all over the country were present, and they were joined by 27 former members, traditionally welcome at all Council meetings, and seven new members who begin active service on July 1.

Pre-meeting committee sessions broke up Wednesday afternoon in time for President and Mrs. Dickey's garden reception for Council members and their wives. At the annual dinner that evening in Thayer Hall, Council President Landauer presented Alumni Awards to Louis V. Wilcox '23 and Robert N. Stevens '27 (see next page) and also made a posthumous award to Sidney C. Hayward '26, whose wife Barbara and daughter Mary Ann were present for the occasion. The silver bowl and framed citation, which had earlier been prepared for presentation to Sid Hayward during his illness, were accepted by his brother-in-law, Douglas N. Everett '26.

Francis Lane Childs '06, Winkley Professor of the Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature Emeritus, addressed the dinner audience on some of the highlights and sidelights of Dartmouth history. This provided a perfect prelude to the after-dinner gathering in the Hanover Inn Tavern, where Ralph Nading Hill '39, President Dickey, and all the other authors of the new Dartmouth history, The College on the Hill, autographed copies of the book. More than fifty copies went down the signing line.

More committee sessions and a Hanover Inn luncheon preceded a full Council meeting in Alumni Hall of Hopkins Center on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Landauer reported for the executive committee regarding Trustee nominating procedures, and was followed by Chairman Charles E. Brundage '16 of the Bequest and Estate Planning Committee, who announced that receipts under this program in fiscal 1965 will be the second highest since the program began, and that in number of new bequest realizations (33 through June 10) an all-time record will be set. The Council gave its backing to the committee's proposal that constant emphasis be given to the "twin pillar" concept of the Alumni Fund and the Be quest and Estate Planning Program, the former serving as the main resource for annual support and the latter as the principal resource for Dartmouth's longrange capital strength.

The Council heard from Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28 on the 1965 Alumni Fund, Chairman David P. Smith '35 on regional organization, and Chairman Neil F. Roberts '35 on enrollment and admissions. In his rather full report on Dartmouth's public relations, Chairman William H. Scherman '34 reviewed the present program and said, "Three years of experience on your committee have shown me that the public relations job at Dartmouth is being handled better than anyone realizes - despite the obvious limitations in the public relations practices of a very public institution such as Dartmouth." He pointed out, however, the extensive ground yet to be covered in achieving any maximum goal and urged that the years up to the Bicentennial be used for the reexamination, enlargement, and possible reorganization of the whole public relations program under one responsible officer. A resolution to this end was approved by the Council.

After a coffee break, Council members and their wives heard a panel discussion of "Graduate Study at Dartmouth," moderated by Prof. Leonard M. Rieser '44, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The two panelists were J. Laurie Snell, Professor of Mathematics, and James F. Hornig, Associate Professor of Chemistry. The day's program concluded with a barbecue supper in the Bema and, for some, attendance at the Dartmouth Players' production of Wonderful Town.

Friday morning's session in Alumni Hall was given over largely to an informal "State of the College" talk by President Dickey. He reviewed what he considered the significant happenings of the college year, and then for nearly an hour answered questions from Council members. As perhaps the most important single development of the year President Dickey cited the review of the educational program by the faculty. Aside from the curriculum changes actually adopted, President Dickey said, the faculty's concern for the educational program of the College as a whole was vitally important for the self-education involved and for the testimony it gave that the faculty is committed to firstrate liberal arts education.

President Dickey stated that it was also an unusually sad year for Dartmouth because of the passing of President Emeritus Hopkins and Sid Hayward. He paid warm tribute to both and said that Dartmouth would forever be the richer for the lifetimes of service they had given to the College.

Prof. Donald Bartlett '24, faculty rep- resentative on the Council, spoke of the work of the new Comparative Studies Center and paid special tribute to the senior faculty members who are willing to study and teach beyond their specialties, as demonstrated by the staff of the Humanities course.

Professor Bartlett was chairman of an ad hoc committee named by the Council to study ways to bring the Council into closer relationship with the academic affairs of the College. The committee report, presented by Mr. McGean, recommended that a new Council committee, "The Committee on Academic Affairs," be established to promote a broader understanding of the work and personnel of the Dartmouth faculty and to assist in planning presentations on academic matters at the time of Council meetings. The Council unanimously adopted the committee's recommendation.

Chairman Lawrence Marx's report on class giving was featured by the announcement of the new 25-year total giving record set by the Class of 1940, as reported elsewhere in this issue.

For the coming year the regular committees of the Alumni Council will be headed by the following: Alumni Fund, Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, Providence, R. I.; Bequest and Estate Planning, Truman T. Metzel '23, Winnetka, Ill.; ClassGiving, Lawrence Marx Jr. '36, New York City; Enrollment and Admissions, William F. Steck '31, Cleveland; PublicRelations, Eugene Katz '28, New York City; Regional Organization, David P. Smith '35, San Francisco; Nominating, John K. Benson '31, Boston.

President Dickey addressing the Alumni Council informally in Alumni Hall.

Morrison G. Tucker '32 (r), the Council'snew president, poses with J. Michael McGean'49, the newly elected secretary.