Sargeant Heads Alumni Council
HOWLAND H. SARGEANT '32 of Washington, D. C., was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council for 1968-69 at its 116th meeting, held in Hanover during the Reunion Week. He succeeds Delwyn J. Worthington '26 of Tucson, Arizona, who presided over the three-day session of the Council, June 19-21.
Mr. Sargeant is president of the Radio Liberty Committee, which supports Radio Liberty, now the most powerful free voice directed exclusively to the Russian people. He has headed this international communications operation since 1954. Prior to that he was engaged in banking and business, government, and foreign affairs. He joined the State Department in Washington in 1947 and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and then Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. He was chairman of three U. S. delegations to the UNESCO General Conferences and in Paris in 1951 he was elected president of the Conference. Mr. Sargeant, a Senior Fellow and summacum laude graduate, was a Rhodes Scholar from Dartmouth. He was president of the General Association of Dartmouth Alumni in 1956-57, and currently is a consultant to the Ford Foundation and a trustee of Freedom House.
To serve as vice president for the coming year the Alumni Council elected Paul R. Staley '51 of Long Beach, Calif., plant manager for Procter and Gamble in Long Beach. J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College, was reelected secretary.
The Council's executive committee consists of these elected officers and four other members: William G. Allyn '32, Syracuse, N. Y.; Warren J. Crumbine '37, Cleveland; Richard C. Everett '40, Atlanta, Ga.; and Emerson Houck '56, Indianapolis, Ind.
New Council Members
The Council elected four new members-at-large to serve three-year terms until June 30, 1971. They are Sanborn C. Brown '35, Lexington, Mass.; Robert S. Weil '40, Montgomery, Ala.; Robert N. Kreidler '51, New York City; and Julian K. Robinson '53, Jersey City, N. J.
As chairman of the executive committee of the General Association of Alumni, Richard Remsen Jr. '42 of Locust Valley, N. Y., will also be a new member of the Council for the coming year.
In other actions, the Council reelected William H. Morton '32 of Rye, N. Y., to a three-year term as alumni representative on the Dartmouth Athletic Council, and elected John H. Hatheway '48 of New York City to a one-year term as alumni representative on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn.
For the third year in a row the garden reception at the President's House for Council members and wives was rained out and was transferred to the Top of the Hop. This opening event preceded the annual dinner in Thayer Hall, where Mr. Worthington presented two Dartmouth Alumni Awards to Prof. John Hurd '21 and Charles L. Hardy '27 (see adjoining story). President Dickey was the principal dinner speaker, dealing, as he had at the May meeting of class officers, with the worldwide rebellion of youth against authority. He said that the colleges and universities, as concentrations of youth, were the sharpest manifestations of this phenomenon, but warned that it would be a complete misreading of events to think that rebellion was solely or even primarily an educational or an American phenomenon.
Following committee meetings during the morning and lunch hour on Thursday, the Council held its first general session that afternoon. The program included a report from John R. McLane Jr. '38, chairman of the Committee on Equal Opportunity, and a panel discussion of student activism and dissent by Dean Thaddeus Seymour, Dean Leonard M. Rieser '44, and College Proctor John J. O'Connor. The liveliest issue of the meeting was that of freedom of speech and dissent as represented by the senior valedictory at Commencement.
Another general meeting of the Council took place on Friday morning. Special reports dealt with progress on Bicentennial planning and on the Third Century Fund.
At the closing meeting it was announced that Richard D. Lombard '53 of New York City will be chairman of the Council's important Committee on the Alumni Fund for 1969, succeeding Ralph Lazarus '35.
Alumni Council president Howland H. Sargeant '32 (c) with Paul R. Staley '51(l), the new vice president, and J. Michael McGean '49, reelected secretary.
