Trustees and Alumni Council Meet

THE sixth combined meeting of the Board of Trustees and the. Alumni Council took place in Hanover over the weekend of January 9-11. The National Executive Committee of the Third Century Fund and the Bicentennial Executive Committee also joined in the combined program. For the Alumni Council it was the 117th meeting, and 39 of the 50 Councilors attended, plus 42 former Council members.

Thursday afternoon new Council members heard College officers, including the Council Secretary, discuss matters of organization and Council objectives at a briefing session. Then President and Mrs. Dickey held a reception at their home for the Trustees and Council members and their wives, followed by an informal buffet in Alumni Hall. A number of Council committee meetings were held Thursday evening, including enrollment and admissions, Alumni Fund, class giving, bequest and estate planning, public relations, and alumni awards. The remaining Council committees met during breakfast Friday morningacademic affairs, class organization, and regional organization.

The Bicentennial Executive Committee also met Thursday evening under the chairmanship of Trustee Charles J. Zimmerman '23. Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28 conducted a breakfast meeting Friday morning for the Third Century Fund National Executive Committee. Harvey P. Hood '18 is the honorary chairman of both of these groups, which are composed largely of Trustees and Alumni Council members.

The business meeting of the full Council was called to order by President Howland H. Sargeant '32 at 9:15 Friday morning for reports of the committees and discussion. During the meeting the wives of the Councilors were conducted through the Hopkins Center workshops by the director, Walker T. Weed '40. Members of the faculty joined Councilors and their wives for luncheon and discussed some of their special projects.

The Friday afternoon joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council was devoted to a discussion of the newly established Dartmouth Campus Conference. An explanation of the purpose of the Conference and a summary of its first meeting were provided by President Dickey, Trustee F. William Andres '29, chairman of the Conference, and student member Robert F. Houser '69, chairman of the Interdormitory Council.

Members of the Green Key Society joined the alumni group for a reception and dinner Friday evening. Alumni Awards were presented to John Lawrence Sullivan '21 and Edwin Christian Chinlund '29 and posthumously to Herbert Franklin Darling '26, whose widow accepted the award. The citations were as follows:

JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN '21

John L. Sullivan, an able and distinguished public servant, always reflecting honor upon Dartmouth, you never were too busy to promote the welfare and advance the scholastic standing of the College. As President of your class and of the Alumni Council, as Trustee for eleven years, as Chairman of the Leadership Gifts Committee in the 1957 Capital Campaign, and currently as a member of an Executive Committee of the Third Century Fund, Dartmouth has had the benefit of your help and counsel over the years in positions of great responsibility. For this the College ever will be grateful.

Your rise from apprentice seaman to "ruler of the Queen's Navee" was no handle polishing promotion scheme like that contrived by Gilbert and another Sullivan. It was the result of preparing early and planning very "carefullee."

As a youngster you learned to row at Camp Belknap. Your successful top hatfrock coat campaign for student mayor of Hanover, your colorful flourishing of cymbals in the band so you would become better known and, incidentally, make the football trips, your singing in the choir, and your acting and debatingall were parts of the grand design to reach top spots in courtroom and public office. Even your 1921 summer job as swimming instructor and librarian on the SS Adriatic was a step up the ladder to the highest crow's nest in our Navy.

It is fortunate for Dartmouth and the country that you did not hold with Woodrow Wilson's Vice-President, Tom Marshall, who said that, "What this country needs is a good five cent cigar," or you might have become a third generation Sullivan cigar maker. Happily you had an early conviction, with which you charged your class at Commencement in 1921, that "ultimate success is now computed in terms of public servicewhether it shall be restricted to the immediate community or shall extend to the entire nation or to all humanity is a problem ... to the solution of which we, as a class, must contribute our fair share."

You have contributed more than your share to this public service obligation through boundless energy and by your logic, charm, quick wit, and ever quicker tongue. The years have tempered but have neither dulled your keen and always agile mind, nor reduced your active participation in affairs of the College and the Nation. So, Mr. Secretary, as we congratulate you on your outstanding achievements, each of us knows that, from here on, our friends will be honored to shake the hand that shook the hand of THE GREAT John L. Sullivan to whom, in recognition of continuing loyalty, vigorous leadership and wise counsel, we present the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

HERBERT FRANKLIN DARLING '26 1904-1968

Dartmouth would not be entering upon her third century were it not for the support of her alumni. However, rarely does a man so generously and graciously express his gratitude to the College as has Herbert Franklin Darling. Twenty-five years ago he wrote to a classmate, "My feeling for the College grows with the years. Dartmouth gave me scholarship aid when I sorely needed it. A few more bonds and I will be on the credit side of my conscience." Indeed, he has done much more than "a few more bonds."

The College is grateful to Herb for many things including the Hopkins Center landscaping and the sculpture court, the artificial ice at the hockey rink and the exhibition at the Center of a collection of rare 18th and 19th century examples of New York State silversmith's art. He was the Treasurer of his class, Secretary of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, a long-time overseer at Thayer School, a member of the Alumni Council for three years, and President of both the Toledo and Western New York Alumni Associations.

Equally impressive was Herb's contribution to the engineering profession, to art, science and history, to business and education, to social service and character-building youth activities, and to future recreational opportunities for the people of New York State. In 1962 he was chosen as an outstanding citizen of the Niagara Frontier who had performed civic services which brought distinction to the community and credit to himself. His memorable gift of two thousand acres of land in the Zoar Valley and on Cataraugus Creek for conservation work and as a nature sanctuary, and his support of other phil- anthropic activities earned for him the accolade, "His career bears the hallmark of good citizenship."

In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful acknowledgment of the loyalty, leadership, and wise counsel enjoyed over the years by the College, it is a privilege, in recognition of our respect, to honor Herbert Franklin Darling, posthumously, with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

EDWIN CHRISTIAN CHINLUND '29

Ed Chinlund, that you became an accountant is understandable. Your father was an accountant. That you still are with the accounting firm you joined almost immediately after graduation demonstrates a dedication and a devotion which you have developed over the years. That Dartmouth has come to depend on this kind of loyalty and on your professional capabilities also is understandable.

Your contributions to the growth and wellbeing of the College naturally have been in the development area. Since 1963, when you became 29's Head Agent, there has been a general upward trend in the giving by your class to the Alumni Fund. The College always will be grateful for your wise counsel, as Chairman of an Alumni Council Committee, in the development of policy on the relationships of class giving and capital gifts. When you agreed to serve on the Third Century Fund National Executive Committee as area chairman for Western Pennsylvania, you showed your willingness to operate under the policy you developed as well as to repeat the job you did so well in the 1957 Capital Gifts Campaign. The College appreciates both your active and support roles in these annual and capital fund projects.

For almost twenty years you were the Treasurer of your class and for five years you were President and Secretary of the Western Pennsylvania Alumni Association. Currently you are President of the Class Agents Association. Your four-year membership on the Alumni Council terminated in 1958.

While serving the College so well and faithfully, you still found time to be President and Director of the Pittsburgh Field Club, Treasurer and a Director of the Chamber of Commerce, active in both the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants and the Pittsburgh United Fund. Your school, Kiskiminetas Springs, and your daughter's school, Winchester-Thurston, are benefiting from your membership on their Boards of Trustees.

For this outstanding service to your College, your profession, your community, and to education, it is a privilege to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

After the awards, the Glee Club, under the direction of Paul R. Zeller, presented a special Bicentennial Concert with slides and a narration written by former Councilor Ralph Nading Hill Jr. '39. Director of the show was Warner Bentley, and others who assisted in its production were Adrian Bouchard and Blair Watson.

At the final session of the Alumni Council Saturday morning Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28 announced that the Third Century Fund, with a total to date of $25.5 million in cash and pledges, had reached the halfway mark in its $51 million campaign.

In another action at the meeting, the Alumni Council nominated Thomas W. Braden '40 of McLean, Va., to succeed himself for a second five-year term as Alumni Trustee of -the College. Mr. Braden, former publisher of the BladeTribune in Oceanside, Calif., now writes a newspaper column with Frank Mankewicz and has his headquarters in Wash- ington. For six years he served as chairman of the California Board of Education. He is one of the Trustee members of the Dartmouth Campus Conference and took part in the panel discussion staged by the Conference at the joint meeting of the Trustees and Alumni Council.

Members of the Bicentennial Executive Committee met at the time of the Trusteeand Council sessions. L to r, Dudley W. Orr '29, Morrison G. Tucker 32, PresidentDickey, George I. Davis '28, Chairman Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Honorary Chairman Harvey Hood 'lB, Alexander Fanelli '42, chairman of the Planning Committee Howland H. Sargeant '32, and Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, executive secretary.

President Howland Sargeant '32 of theAlumni Council presents DartmouthAlumni Awards to (top) John L. Sullivan'21, (center) Mrs. Herbert F. Darling ('26)who accepted her husband's posthumousaward, and (below) Edmund Chinlund '29.

President Howland Sargeant '32 of theAlumni Council presents DartmouthAlumni Awards to (top) John L. Sullivan'21, (center) Mrs. Herbert F. Darling ('26)who accepted her husband's posthumousaward, and (below) Edmund Chinlund '29.

President Howland Sargeant '32 of theAlumni Council presents DartmouthAlumni Awards to (top) John L. Sullivan'21, (center) Mrs. Herbert F. Darling ('26)who accepted her husband's posthumousaward, and (below) Edmund Chinlund '29.