Trustees Meet with Alumni Council

DARTMOUTH'S Board of Trustees and Alumni Council, which meet jointly at two-year intervals, held their fifth combined meeting in Hanover on the weekend of January 11-13. The highlights were a joint session Friday afternoon, at which the College's financial outlook for the next decade was the topic, and a joint dinner in Alumni Hall that evening. Separate sessions of the two bodies were held on all three days, beginning Thursday evening and ending Saturday noon.

All but five of the fifty members of the Alumni Council representing every section of the country were in Hanover for the Council's 115th meeting. And more than forty former members also attended. Delwyn J. Worthington '26 of Tucson, Arizona, Alumni Council president, presided over the joint gatherings and at the separate Council sessions.

Following Thursday afternoon's briefing session for new Council members, President and Mrs. Dickey were at home to Trustees, Councillors, and their wives. The first evening was given over to meetings of committees scheduled to report during the next two days - Alumni Fund, enrollment and admissions, class giving, public relations, bequests and estate planning, and alumni awards. The Bicentennial Executive Committee, headed by Trustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23, also held a Thursday evening meeting; and. the next day, Council committees on academic affairs and regional organization had breakfast meetings.

At Friday morning's first session of the full Council, a major item of business was the presentation by George N. Farrand '33, chairman of the nominating committee, of the names of Ralph Lazarus '35 and Harrison F. Dunning '30 as the nominees of the Council for the two vacancies on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees occurring in June. The actual vote, unanimously favorable, was delayed until the next morning so members could have time to discuss this most important responsibility of the Council. (A separate article about the Trustee nominees appears on the next page.)

The Council also heard and discussed the Special Committee on Alumni Relations report, which had been distributed to members in printed form before the Hanover meeting. In addition to reviewing the celebrated CAR report of 1958 and the progress in implementing its recommendations, the new committee, headed by N. Page Worthington '33, made a number of basic recommendations of its own. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE plans to give fuller treatment to the 1968 report in a later issue, but briefly here, the CAR proposals are aimed at meeting: (1) the need for a broader scope of alumni programs, (2) the need to develop more programs designed to attract younger alumni, (3) the growing demand for continuing education on the part of Dartmouth alumni, (4) the need for the College to acquire, on a continuing and broad basis, comprehensive data on the attitudes and opinions of its alumni toward the College and its programs, and (5) the need for the College continually to ensure that the alumni are clearly and completely up to date on its plans and programs.

Before general discussion and approval of the report, Council members were grouped at tables with discussion leaders, who then reported on the main points brought out in each group review.

The Council also heard a summary of Bicentennial plans, given by Prof. Frank Smallwood '50, chairman of the local Bicentennial Planning Committee.

Council members joined the Trustees for the noon dedication of the Hayward Room in the new Hanover Inn (see Page 21), and then met with them after lunch for Friday afternoon's joint session, devoted to the present and future financial strategy of the College. Participants in this lengthy review were President Dickey, Treasurer John F. Meek '33, Provost Leonard M. Rieser '44, Vice President George H. Colton '35, Alumni Fund Chairman Ralph Lazarus '35, Third Century Fund Chairman Rupert P. Thompson Jr. '28, and Wolcott D. Street and Richard G. Gould, fund-raising counsel for the Third Century Fund.

In explanation of the thesis that the College has only limited room for maneuver on the steadily rising expense side and must therefore seek its solutions on the side of income, the speakers reviewed developments of the past decade and made projections to the year 1976-77, when the minimum income needed was estimated to be $38.5 million, compared with the $21.4 of the year 1966-67, excluding auxiliary activities. Last year's figure of $21.4 million compared with only $6.7 million in 1956-57. Discussions regarding the income outlook dealt with student fees, endowment income, the Alumni Fund, public and semi-public support, and private gifts. After the projections concerning income in all these categories during the next decade, $4.7 million of operating expense remained "unfunded" for the year 1976-77. But President Dickey and others expressed the hope that the estimates of future support for the College, while reasonable, would prove to be too conservative.

At the joint dinner of Trustees and Council members in Alumni Hall that evening, alumni and their wives sat with members of Green Key, who later took small groups on a pre-arranged tour of student activities all over the campus.

One of the highlights of the dinner was the presentation of the Council's highest honor, a Dartmouth Alumni Award, to Victor G. Borella '30, retired executive vice president of Rockefeller Center and a leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs for many years. In making the award, Council President Worthington read the following citation:

Seldom has one done so much for so many in such a short time. Therefore, few questioned your earned right to retire two years ago as Executive Vice-President of Rockefeller Center, but everyone wondered then if you knew the meaning of retirement. It is clear now that you must have decided, by example, to rewrite the definition.

Your current responsibility as a labor consultant ranges beyond your earlier scale of negotiations, even though it ran the gamut from racketeers to Rockettes, and represents your high C on this score. Who can gainsay that one day you will be calling the labor tune in Washington?

After a successful job as Personnel Director in the General Motors taxi business, you moved up to be G.M.'s Public Relations Counsel where you engineered some techniques which are still in use today. Although challenging - this was BN, Before Nader - you saw a greater challenge 'cross town at Rockefeller Center, a potential fiasco born out of a debacle, with taxes and land lease costs more than ten times revenues. Nelson Rockefeller's confidence in your ability eventually to direct this operation was not misplaced. When you left, the Center was an internationally known, financially successful, magnificent monument to commerce and the arts.

Meanwhile the College was richer for your help and advice as a member of the Hopkins Center Building Committee and as a charter member and later chairman of the Hanover Inn Board of Overseers - perfect examples of round pegs in round holes - as a member and sometime vice-president of the Alumni Council, as vice-president of the General Association of Alumni, as a Class Agent, member of the Executive Committee for the Alumni Fund, and Class President - a most impressive list of contributions to the life, growth and well-being of the College.

You still found time to act as - one of Governor Rockefeller's closest advisers, to help him in labor, political and business activities, and to assist him as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs - later you were its Executive Director - in working out a new program aimed at encouraging mutual friendship between the United States and her Latin American allies, to earn a Freedom Foundations Medal and a Union Label Award of Merit and lately to serve as Vice-Chairman of New York City's Management- Labor Council.

For your distinguished service as a negotiator and management consultant on administration - labor relations - industrial public relations, as a diplomat in international affairs, and for your voluntary class leadership and devotion to the continued progress of the College, it is a privilege, in recognition of our respect, to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Council members were up bright and early for a breakfast meeting at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning. Charles F. Dey '52, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, was the speaker, outlining a program, still indefinite, that would give students, faculty," and alumni a chance to play a direct and personal part in the alleviation of big-city ghetto problems.

The final Council meeting on Saturday morning was given over largely to committee reports. Among its actions was official sanction of Dartmouth's 139th alumni club - the SUASCO Dartmouth Club (Sudbury, Asipic and Concord Rivers) in Massachusetts.

A major vote by the Council on Saturday morning was the approval of a goal for the 1968 Alumni Fund Campaign. Chairman Ralph Lazarus '35 and the Fund Committee recommended a minimum goal of $2,101,560.68 — precisely the amount raised in last year's campaign. Lazarus explained that this was in keeping with the resolution, adopted last January by the Council, to "sustain the annual Alumni Fund at its present level during the Third Century Fund Campaign." The recommended goal was unanimously approved by the Council, right down to the 68 cents.

Victor G. Borella '30 (r) receiving anAlumni Award from Council presidentDelwyn J. Worthington '26 at joint dinner.