CHAIRMAN'S REPORT 1905-1966 CAMPAIGN

Chairman, Dartmouth Alumni Fund Committee

The problem with any report is that it must deal largely with the statistics and detail of achievements, largely ignoring the human efforts which make the report possible. This is particularly true with a completely voluntary effort such as the Dartmouth Alumni Fund where each campaign reflects the human dedication, service, even sacrifice on the part of so many individuals.

This year's 52nd annual Fund campaign exemplifies what I mean. More alumni, parents and friends gave to Dartmouth through the Fund than ever before - 22,797 in all. The amount contributed - $1,937,790 - was the largest in Fund history, exceeding the 1966 goal by $37,000 and representing $157,000 more than was given to the 1965 Alumni Fund. This year some 4,000 alumni and parents worked on the campaign, the largest task force in Fund history, and I believe the most effective. They include the members of the Alumni Fund Committee and Alumni Council, the various fall regional chairmen and committees, the Head Class Agents, the Regional Class Agents, the regular Class Agents, Class Newsletter Editors, a new group of Overseas Agents, many Class Officers and 120 members of the Dartmouth Parents Committee...

The staff tells me that no other college or university in the nation can match our Alumni Fund organization in quantity or quality. I believe this from my first hand experience with many of these workers, and I have no doubt that these Dartmouth men, and the thousands of others who do their part by contributing each year so generously are what truly make our Fund the best in the world of higher education.

As you may recall I became Chairman for the 1964-65 campaign, following the remarkably successful 50th Anniversary drive, headed by Charles F. Moore, Jr. '25, when we broke through the $1.5-million barrier.

At that time the Committee debated long and hard about our goals, realizing that Dartmouth needed and could wisely use every possible dollar we could raise, yet wondering about alumni reactions to steadily increasing goals. Necessity and desire suggested a goal of $1,800,000 and we set out to gain this ambitious objective last year. We missed by only $20,000, came back this year with a $1,900,000 goal and went over by $37,000.

I had made a private pledge that we would make up in 1966 for that $20,000 "miss", and thanks to all of you that pledge has been redeemed. I can now put down the reins as chairman with the knowledge that Dartmouth has gained, in the past two years, the funds it so vitally needs to sustain current programs and to move forward with confidence and strength.

So to each and every Dartmouth man who has served and/or supported the Alumni Fund over the past two years I extend my profound thanks. I do this both very personally and also as the spokesman for the Alumni Fund Committee and Dartmouth Alumni

Council, under whose capable and energetic guidance these annual campaigns are directed.

Elsewhere in this report is detailed the class by class achievements for this 1966 Campaign, and a special Honor Roll listing of classes compiling significant accomplishments in certain important categories.

Because, as I wrote earlier, it is the human leadership and human effort which has made these marvelous results possible, I am going to take space to recognize just a few of the many-hundreds who laboured so well in Dartmouth's cause this year.

First, a deep bow to my fellow members of the Fund Committee whose wise counsel and wholehearted assistance provided the real leadership to our Fund Campaigns. Bob Maclellan '28, Jack Benson '31, Sid Stoneman '33 and Bill McElnea '44 are leaving the Fund Committee with me. Remaining on to help the new Fund Chairman are Marv Braverman '29, Ed Ramsey '35, Dave Williams '35 and Bill Wrightson '40.

Last fall the Fund conducted special regional programs in seven large alumni cities, seeking major advanced gifts and pledges for the '66 campaign. This program helped raise over $500,000 before the drive opened on April 1, and we are most grateful to the regional chairmen and the seventy committee members who assisted. The 1966 regional chairmen were - Bill Bullen '22 and Jack Benson '31 in the Boston area, Tom Murdough '26 in Chicago, Bob Fairbanks '33 and Lee Chilcote '30 in Cleveland, Ed Ramsey '35 for the Los Angeles area, Jerry Swope '29 heading a large New York City committee, Loren Westhaver '28 for San Francisco, and Marv Braverman '29 leading the Washington, D. C. area.

In recent years Dartmouth parents have been joining with alumni in contributing to the annual Fund. This year Mr. H. Tenison Deane of New York City headed a Parents Committee of some 120 members which produced some $63,000 from just over 1,500 parent donors - a remarkably fine record and one for which we are most grateful.

This past year, on an experimental basis, the Fund Committee had some twenty Dartmouth men serving as Overseas Agents in ten foreign countries in Europe, South America and Asia. These men were instrumental in bringing Dartmouth's case to our far flung alumni and the results were highly encouraging. Our thanks to these "Foreign Agents," for their fine efforts and great assistance.

Of course, the bulk of the giving and the greatest work continues to be at the class level for here is the foundation upon which each campaign rests. The Class of 1942, in its pre-25th reunion year, deserves special commendation. Led by Head Agent Warren Kreter, who was ably seconded by '42's Class Giving Chairman Bob Strasenburgh, 1942 raised $77,569 for the 1966 Fund, the largest amount contributed by any class in Fund history. This enabled 1942 to wrest the Davis Trophy (for the largest class dollar total) from the "Great Class of 1925" which has retained it for so long. The Class of 1942 also captured the Group V Green Derby competition by a considerable margin.

The Class of 1941 observed its 25th reunion in grand fashion by announcing a new record in total class giving through 25 years of alumni life of $656,000. This included the $68,898 contributed by the '41 fellowship to the 1966 Alumni Fund. The coordinated Class Giving Campaign was directed by Bruce Friedlich, Dan Provost and Ed Larner.

Two other Dartmouth classes, 1927, led by Sam Wormser, and 1925, headed by Larry Leavitt, raised over $60,000 each in the 1966 campaign, while five classes went over the $50,000 level. These were - 1929, Ed Chinlund; 1926, Herm Trefethen; 1940, Hugh Dryfoos; 1931, Jim Swift; and 1930, led by Bud French.

The younger alumni classes understandably led in total donors. The Class of 1957 sparked by Joe Stevenson's imaginative" '57 Blitz" campaign set a new class record of 573 donors, while Ed Condit gained 563 donors for his Class of 1953. Three other classes 1959 led by Jim Wooster, 1952 under John Klein and 1958 with Herb Swarzman as Head Agent - gained over 500 donors each.

I will not repeat here the names and details of those classes achieving recognition in the Honor Roll listings or in the Green Derby rankings. We salute each of you who led your classes so well, and we thank all classmates who so effectively helped to create these remarkable records and honors.

A word is in order, I feel, to those folks in Hanover who helped to service and support the Fund from the College end. John Dickey, our President, with whom I traveled the alumni circuit, is the real spokesman for both Dartmouth and its Alumni Fund. George Colton '35, Dartmouth's new Vice President, provided very valuable advice and assistance in many ways. And, of course, Cliff Jordan '45 and his associates - Parker Soule '31, Charlie Breed '51 and Bob Sands '59 and their fine crew of ladies directed by Mary Sargent deserve a "well done" for their daily services and first-rate assistance to the Fund organization and program.

Taking over as Fund Chairman for 1967 is Ralph Lazarus '35, who was a member last year of our Fund Committee. He has written a brief, preliminary message for this report, which I suggest you read. Having helped urge Ralph to take on this post I do want to assure him of our great confidence in his leadership and of the willingness of our entire Fund organization to assist him in every possible way.

My direct connection with the Dartmouth Alumni Fund has terminated but my association with the College, and particularly with its financial requirements, has not. As many of you already know, I shall serve as General Chairman of a forthcoming major Capital Gifts effort which will be mounted in connection with the College's 1969-70 Bicentennial. Plans for this effort will be announced in about a year, but I want to say to each of you that my association with the Dartmouth alumni body through two years of activity in the Alumni Fund, and the opportunity this has given me to become familiar with the aspirations and problems of the College, makes me eager to tackle the next assignment. I am convinced that the cause of higher education, and specifically the important leadership role Dartmouth exemplifies in higher education, is one of the most significant causes men can serve. I believe that most of you share this feeling and indeed this is a major reason why Dartmouth is so fortunate and has been able to remain at the forefront of America's great institutions of higher learning. May this always be so.

RALPH LAZARUS '35

The new Chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Committee and of the 1967 and 1968 campaigns is Ralph Lazarus '35 of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Lazarus is President of Federated Department Stores, Incorporated, the nation's largest department store group with stores in over three dozen communities and an annual sales volume in excess of $1.3 billion. Mr. Lazarus is also a director of several companies including General Electric and the Gillette Company. He has recently completed a two-year term as president of United Community Funds and Councils of America and is now serving as Vice-Chairman of the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development. He is a former Chairman of the Cincinnati United Appeal.

Long active in Dartmouth affairs, he has been a Class Agent, and is currently a member of of the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Dartmouth Alumni Council. Mr. Lazarus has three sons attending Dartmouth College-Richard, a senior; John, a junior; and James who will be a freshman student this fall. Mr. Lazarus received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Dartmouth in 1965 and has been awarded other honorary degrees by the University of Miami (Florida), Suffolk University (Boston) and Xavier University in Cincinnati.

A WORD FROM THE NEW ALUMNI FUND CHAIRMAN

Looking over Dartmouth's budget for 1966, I note that something like 12% of the college's operating funds now come from you and other givers to the Alumni Fund.

About one dollar out of eight is a graduate dollar coming back to Hanover for post-graduate work!That is an impressive statistic.

For what it means is that we now have men on our faculty we couldn't have afforded withoutyour gifts.

It means that there are books in our library, equipment in our laboratories, new facilities on ourcampus that Dartmouth could not have financed - except for your generous support.

And that 12% explains another thing. It explains why I was willing to accept, however reluctantly, the chairmanship of this Alumni Fund campaign. I could think of no other extra-curricular activityI might undertake that could have so enduring a meaning to so many future generations of Dartmouthmen.

Not that I expect to do the job alone! Far from it. A regiment of solicitors and an army ofgivers are the real heart of this operation. But I am dedicated to the proposition that that 12% isthe vital margin of difference between a good and a great Dartmouth College.

This year the 12% will add up to something more than 2 million dollars. The size of the figurefrightens me not at all. The record for 1966 shows that it is well within our reach. With your counsel,your services, your support, we of the Fund Committee expect to make that goal.

NEW ENDOWMENT FUNDS FOR THE ALUMNI FUND

There are now almost 200 individual endowment funds, ranging in size from $50 to $50,000, established to perpetuate or supplement annual Alumni Fund gifts. The income from each fund is considered a contribution by the alumnus designated and is included among the gifts in his class. Since last year's 1965 report, 13 new endowment funds have been established, these are:

Walter Herman Golde 1910 Memorial Ernest Martin Hopkins 1901 Memorial Morton Kyle 1912 Memorial Dr. Halsey B. Loder 1905 Memorial Hiram J. McLellan 1916 Mayo M. Magoon 1918 Memorial Leonard J. Reade 1917

George L. Scott 1925 Edmund Peter Starzyk 1960 Memorial Phillips M. Van Huyck 1924 Waltman Walters 1917 Leon W. Webster 1904 Memorial Leslie I. Wiggin 1910 Memorial

1966 ALUMNI FUND STATEMENTReceipts: 19,810 Alumni Gifts $1,648,536 85% 1,505 Parent Gifts 62,975 3 1,482 Memorial & Miscellaneous Gifts 68,884 4 Memorial Fund Income 157,395 8 22,797 $1,937,790 100% Applied to: 1965-66 College Operating Expenses *$1,565,640 81% 1965-66 Fund Campaign Expenses 134,360 7 Funds to meet urgent budget items 1966-1967 237,790 12 $1,937,790 100% *Plus $230,156 from 1965 Fund for total of $1,795,796 available "free" funds to the 1965-66 College operating expenses.

1966 HONOR ROLL LARGEST DOLLAR TOTAL 1942 Warren G. Kreter $77,569 1941 Edward A. Larner, Jr. 68,898 1927 Samuel Z. Wormser 61,470 1925 Laurence G. Leavitt 61,390 1929 Edwin C. Chinlund 56,379 1926 Herman J. Trefethen 54,687 1940 Hugh Dryfoos 54,081 1931 William B. Swift 53,088 1930 G. Warren French 52,054 1928 Howard S. Bush 47,539 NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS 1957 Josiah Stevenson, IV 573 1953 Edward M. Condit, Jr. 563 1959 James W. Wooster, 3rd 531 1952 John C. Klein 520 1958 Herb Swarzman 517 1960 William G. Batt 499 1954 Robert L. Woodberry 497 1951 Howard K. Read 496 1950 Norman E. McCulloch, Jr. 484 1956 Philip S. Langtry 484 PERCENT OF OBJECTIVE 1942 Warren G. Kreter 166.9% 1907 Robert D. Kenyon 144.8 1952 John C. Klein 132.4 1916 H. Burton Lowe 130.6 1906 Edward B. Redman 126.4 1953 Edward M. Condit, Jr. 125.4 1950 Norman McCulloch, Jr. 124.3 1921 William M. Alley 121.1 1944 Philip E. Penberthy 120.5 1951 Howard K. Read 120.4 IMPROVEMENT OVER 1965 — DOLLARS 1942 Warren G. Kreter $35,110 1941 Edward A. Larner, Jr. 23,927 1916 H. Burton Lowe 9,314 1930 G. Warren French 8,874 1936 Gilbert Balkam 6,539 1935 J. Harris Latimer 6,300 1944 Philip E. Penberthy 6,242 1923 Louis V. Wilcox 6,207 1943 Robert Edwin Field 5,623 1929 Edwin C. Chinlund 5,362 1951 Howard K. Read 5,070 IMPROVEMENT OVER 1965 — CONTRIBUTORS 1949 Elliot M. Baritz 42 1959 James W. Wooster, 3rd 33 1938 Martin R. King 27 1939 Joseph H. Batchelder, Jr. 27 1963 William L. Russell, 3rd 25 1930 G. Warren French 24 1957 Josiah Stevenson, IV 24 1944 Philip E. Penberthy 22 1951 Howard K. Read 21 CLASSES WITH 100 OR MORE CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS 1925 Laurence G. Leavitt 153 1936 Gilbert Balkam 140 1931 William B. Swift 131 1933 Edwin C. Knapp 131 1935 J. Harris Latimer 130 1940 Hugh Dryfoos 130 1941 Edward A. Larner, Jr. 130 1930 G. Warren French 129 1929 Edwin C. Chinlund 127 1942 Warren G. Kreter 127 1928 Howard S. Bush 126 1927 Samuel Z. Wormser 125 1926 Herman J. Trefethen 118 1924 Douglas S. Craig 102 1923 Louis V. Wilcox 100 $1,000 AND UP DONORS 1925 Laurence G. Leavitt 15 1928 Howard S. Bush 14 1921 William M. Alley 13 1923 Louis V. Wilcox 13 1929 Edwin C. Chinlund 13 1930 G. Warren French 13 1941 Edward A. Larner, Jr. 13 1926 Herman J. Trefethen 12 1927 Samuel Z. Wormser 12 1942 Warren G. Kreter 12