Harvey Hood '18 Retires as Trustee

TWENTY-FIVE years of service as a Dartmouth Trustee ended for Harvey p. Hood '18, senior member of the Board, when he retired at the . age of 70 at the Commencement meeting of the Trustees. Mr. Hood, chairman of the executive committee of the Board, was hailed by President Dickey as "a major servant of the College for the past quarter century."

To fill the vacancy created by Mr. Hood's retirement, the Board elected Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '2B of Providence, R.I., chairman of Textron, Inc., to be a Life Trustee of the College. Mr. Thompson, former Alumni Council member and Alumni Fund chairman, is currently chairman of the major capital gifts campaign being planned in conjunction with Dartmouth's Bicentennial.

Another Trustee action concerning Board membership was the election of John C. Woodhouse '21 of Wilmington, Del., to a second full term as Alumni Trustee of the College. Dr. Woodhouse, now retired, was one of the leading research chemists with the Du Pont Company. The Dartmouth Board currently consists of President Dickey, Governor King of New Hampshire (ex officio), seven Life Trustees, and seven Alumni Trustees who are limited to two full terms of five years each.

Mr. Hood first joined the Board as an Alumni Trustee in 1942 and became a Life Trustee in 1951. With the exception of the President of the College, no Trustee has carried a larger responsibility for the governance of the modern Dartmouth. One role of the utmost importance was the chairmanship of the Trustees Planning Committee established in 1954 to review every aspect of the College and to make plans for its stem-to-stern development during the fifteen years leading up to the Bicentennial in 1969. Last year Mr. Hood was appointed chairman of the Bicentennial executive committee, and upon his retirement last month his fellow Trustees elected him honorary chairman of the observance of Dartmouth's 200th anniversary.

At the June meeting the Board also unanimously passed the following resolution of tribute:

Among the blessings Dartmouth has counted more fervently than most institutions has been the support of her alumni. Only occasionally, however, does a man come along whose entire life sums up the ideal of Dartmouth service so that it may truly be said the College would not have been the same without him.

Even before graduating with the Class of 1918 you, Harvey Hood, began serving the College as editor of The Dartmouth, president of the Senior Class and of Palaeopitus, and manager of the football team. With remarkable foresight Dartmouth awarded you the Barrett Cup and you spent the next fifty years confirming the wisdom of that choice.

As member of the Alumni Council, past president of the Boston Alumni Association, chairman of the Alumni Fund, first chairman of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School, and for 25 years a member of the Board of Trustees, you have devoted yourself to nearly every area of Dartmouth service. Your leadership of the 1941-42 Alumni Fund campaign set a record that gave this critical College asset an entirely new dimension. For the past eleven years, as Chairman of the Trustees Executive Committee, you have wisely guided the affairs of this institution both in the deliberations of that Committee and, even more importantly, by your ready availability at all times as an understanding counselor to the officers of the College. You have also served the Trustees committees on Investments and Physical Plant Development. In the years ahead your work may find its greatest monument in your leadership as first chairman of the Trustees Planning Committee from 1954 to 1961 during which your patient insistence on a review "in depth" of all aspects of the College has prepared the way for it to enter its Third Century with renewed vigor and strength. Most recently, as Chairman of the Bicentennial Executive Committee, you have laid the groundwork for a celebration that will unite the Dartmouth family and rededicate this institution to greatness.

For these achievements, for your quiet generosity, and for your devotion and friendship, the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College votes you its abiding appreciation and warm affection and hereby designates you honorary chairman of the Dartmouth Bicentennial.

Mr. Thompson, newly elected member of the Board, has served for the past six years on the Board of Overseers of Tuck School. He has been both class treasurer and class president in addition to being on the Alumni Council, 1963-66. After a banking career in Providence, he joined Textron, Inc., in 1956 and has headed the company since 1960. Under his leadership the company has had a remarkable record of diversified growth and currently has annual sales of more than one billion dollars.

Harvey P. Hood '18 (left), retiring senior member of Dartmouth's Board of Trustees,with Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28, elected to succeed him as a Life Trustee.