At the annual Alumni Fund Class Agents

At the annual Alumni Fund Class Agents Dinner in Boston on March 24, Charles H.Hood II '51 (r) received the Harvey P. Hood Trophy as the 1965 campaign's outstanding Head Agent of a class 11 to 25 years out of college. Fund Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28 (1) made the presentation and read the following citation:

Nepotism has an unfavorable connotation in the modern lexicon. However that may be, the Alumni Fund Committee feels compelled to risk being accused of family favoritism by making this award to you. In its defense, the Committee cites your achievement in leading your Class from the $12,400 level to $20,700 in just two years as Head Class Agent, with almost $6,000 of that increase coming during the 1965 Campaign. Much of this success is due to the imaginative approach you conceived last year, on the occasion of your Class's 15th Reunion year, by recruiting a group of "Fantom" matching givers who agreed to match increases and new gifts to the 1951 Fund. You also provided an invaluable service to Dartmouth by setting up and operating an amazingly thorough IBM data reporting system for your Class, elements of which have now been incorporated into the entire Alumni Fund operation benefiting all classes. For these specific contributions and for your overall leadership qualities so ably demonstrated during your tenure as Head Class Agent (and which your Class has already recognized by electing you its Chairman), the Dartmouth Alumni Fund Committee feels more than justified in naming you the outstanding Head Agent of a Class eleven to twenty-five years out of College by presenting you with the 1965 Harvey P. Hood Trophy Award - an award established by your father when he served as Alumni Fund Chairman in 1941 and 1942.