Trustees Nominated for Second Terms
THREE members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees whose first terms end in June were nominated by the Dartmouth Alumni Council for second full terms of five years when the Council met in Hanover in mid-January. Nominated to continue serving on the Board from July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1971 were John D. Dodd '22 of Hampton, N. J.; William E. Buchanan '24 of Menasha, Wis.; and Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, Ohio.
Nomination of the seven so-called Alumni Trustees on the 16-man Board is the responsibility of the Alumni Council, acting in behalf of the alumni. Other nominations by the alumni at large may be made in accordance with constitutional procedures quoted at the end of this article. Actual election of Trustees is the responsibility of the Board.
Mr. Dodd, now retired, was Vice President of the New York Telephone Company. He is vice chairman of the Dartmouth Trustees' Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs and a member of the Committee on the Budget, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, and the Trustees Planning Committee, for which he is serving as chairman of the sub-committee now making a study of faculty and staff compensation. He is a former member of the Alumni Council and was chairman of the Alumni Fund in 1961 and 1962. He was head agent for the Class of 1922 from 1956 to 1960 and served as president of the Class Agents Association.
When he retired in 1964 Mr. Dodd had been with the Bell Telephone System for 42 years, beginning as a traffic student in Philadelphia the year he graduated from Dartmouth. He joined New York Telephone in 1924 and later held various managerial posts in the directory, commercial, and engineering departments. In 1955 he became vice president.
Mr. Dodd was active as a director of the New York Board of Trade and the Fifth Avenue Association, and as a trustee of the National Foundation. He is currently an Overseer of Dartmouth's Tuck School.
Mr. Buchanan, who is president of the Appleton (Wis.) Wire Works Corporation, is an alternate member of the Dartmouth Trustees' Executive Committee, and a member of the Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs and the Committee on the Budget. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1959 until his election to the Board in 1961.
After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1926, Mr. Buchanan joined the Appleton Wire Works Corporation, manufacturers of wire cloth for the pulp and paper industry. He rose through the executive ranks and became president in 1938. He is now chairman of the board of trustees of Lawrence University, from which his son Robert was graduated in 1962. He has two Dartmouth sons, Charles '53 and Williams Jr. '56, and a Dartmouth son-in-law, William N. Vitalis '53.
Among his directorships are those with Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., American Can Co., Appleton Coated Paper Co., Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., First National Bank of Appleton, and the Breneman-Hartshorn Co. of Cincinnati.
Mr. Oelman, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Cash Register Company, is vice chairman of the Dartmouth Trustees' Committee on the Budget and is a member of the Committee on Alumni and Public Affairs. He was a member of the Alumni Council from 1952 to 1956 and served as its president in 1954-55.
A Senior Fellow and summa cumlaude graduate of Dartmouth, Mr. Oelman studied economics and international law at the University of Vienna in 1931-32. He joined National Cash Register in 1933 and rose to vice president in 1946, executive vice president in 1950, president in 1957, and chief executive officer in 1961. He became board chairman as well in 1962, but relinquished the presidency in 1964.
Mr. Oelman is a director of Koppers Company, the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Procter and Gamble, the First National City Bank of New York, and the Winters National Bank and Trust Company of Dayton. He is past president of the Office Equipment Manufacturers Institute and past vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers. He has been a violinist with the Dayton Symphony Orchestra and holds honorary degrees from Miami University of Ohio and the University of Dayton, for which he served as president of the associate board of lay trustees.
PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS
Unless other nominations are received within two months of this published report of the action of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, the names of Messrs. Dodd, Buchanan and Oelman will go to the Board of Trustees as the nominees of the alumni for the three vacancies occurring on the Board. Following is the section of the Alumni Association constitution providing for Trustee nominations other than those put forward by the Alumni Council in behalf of the alumni:
"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."
John D. Dodd '22
William E. Buchanan '24
Robert S. Oelman '31
