Over $5 Million Is Credited to the Classes in 1966-67
DURING the fiscal year ended June 30, 1967, Dartmouth alumni, parents and friends contributed to the College a total of $5,030,416 which was attributable to class giving. This increased the aggregate of recorded gifts by classes to $62,502,099. Detailed records for all the classes with living members are shown on the accompanying table.
Many outstanding class performances figure in this overall achievement and the first to be saluted should be the two classes— 1928 and 1952 which have joined the select list of 22 classes which have contributed over $1,000,000 since graduation.
Also deserving of recognition for passing the half-million dollar mark in Alumni Fund giving are the Classes of 1928 and 1930. Ten classes now have that distinction.
The Class of 1926 led all classes in total giving last year with $368,936. Four other classes— 1922, 1924, 1925, and 1928 contributed over $150,000. For the second year in a row, 1942 led all classes in Alumni Fund giving with a new record of $91,669. Five other classes - 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, and 1941 - topped $60,000 in the 1967 Fund.
The Class of 1942 also established a new record in 25-Year Giving by announcing a grand total of $1,270,000 in pledges and gifts at their reunion banquet in June. Of this total, $300,000 was raised during the 2%-year intensive effort leading up to reunion, also a new record.
The Alumni Fund led all programs as the primary medium of class giving, surpassing the $2-million mark for the first time with $2,101,560. Realizations from bequests and trusts in the hands of others yielded $1,046,870, and the balance of $1,781,986 consisted of gifts for current use, endowment, and plant which were made either outright or through the increasingly popular method of life income trusts.
The Class Giving Committee of the Alumni Council will be kept increasingly busy during the coming months and years totaling and crediting gifts which will be flowing to the College through the recently announced Third Century Fund.
