Nominees for Alumni Trustee
IN one of the most important actions at its meeting in Hanover last month the Dartmouth Alumni Council unanimously made Harrison F. Dunning '30 of Philadelphia and Ralph Lazarus '35 of Cincinnati its nominees to fill the two vacancies that will occur on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees in June. Mr. Lazarus is the nominee to fill the unexpired term of John C. Woodhouse '21, who reaches the compulsory retirement age of 70, and Mr. Dunning is the nominee to succeed John L. Sullivan '21, who will complete his second five-year term as Alumni Trustee.
Nomination of the so-called Alumni Trustees, who number seven 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. Dunning is president and chief executive officer of the Scott Paper Company, with headquarters in Philadelphia. He joined the company 32 years ago and since then has held a succession of executive positions in sales, plant management, production, marketing, and general operations. He was elected president in 1962 and in 1966 became chief executive officer as well. He is a director of the National Biscuit Company and Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Committee for Economic Development and has also been active with the National Industrial Conference Board and the Greater Philadelphia Movement.
In Dartmouth affairs, Mr. Dunning has been an Overseer of the Tuck School and has frequently lectured there. He was vice president of Dartmouth's General Alumni Association in 1964-65 and is now chairman of the Association's executive committee, which makes him ex officio a member of the Alumni Council.
He is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Third Century Fund and is chairman of the Fund's Major Gifts Committee. His son, Harrison C. Dunning '60, who received his Dartmouth degree summa cum laude and was valedictorian of his class, holds an LL.B. from Harvard Law School and is now a teacher of law.
Mr. Lazarus is chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, Inc., one of the country's mammoth retail chains, with annual sales of $1.5 billion. He became chairman last year after serving as president since 1957. One of the industrial statesmen of the nation, he also has a broad interest in education, serving on the Peace Corps Career Planning Advisory Committee, the Visiting Committee of the Harvard School of Education, the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, the National Committee for the Support of Public Schools, and the Youth Opportunity Campaign Task Force. He serves on the boards of many leading companies, including General Electric, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Scott Paper Company.
Mr. Lazarus is chairman of the 1968 Dartmouth Alumni Fund and last year directed the Fund to its first achievement of more than $2 million. He is also on the National Executive Committee for the Third Century Fund. He has served on the Alumni Council and is a former Overseer of the Tuck School. Mr. Lazarus has three Dartmouth sons: Richard '67, John '68, and James '70. Last year all three sons were undergraduates at the same time.
PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS
Unless other nominations are received within two months of this published report, the names of Mr. Dunning and Mr. Lazarus will go to the Board of Trustees as the nominees of the alumni for the two 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:
"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 alum nus 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."
Ralph Lazarus '35
Harrison F. Dunning '30
