Timbers Heads Alumni Council
WILLIAM H. TIMBERS '37 of Darien, Conn., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut, was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council for 1969-70 at the annual June meeting held in Hanover during Reunion Week. He succeeds Howland H. Sargeant '32 of Washington, D. C., who presided over the three-day gathering.
Judge Timbers, a magna cum laude graduate of the College, took his law degree at Yale in 1940. He was an associate in the New York law firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland and Keindl from 1940 to 1948 and for the next five years was a member of Cummings and Lockwood in Stamford, Conn. He served as general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington from 1953 to 1956, and then became a member of Skadden, Arps, Slate and Timbers in New York City. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960 and has been Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Connecticut for the past five years. Well known in the dog world as a breeder and exhibitor of Norwegian Elkhounds, he is a board member of the American Kennel Club. He has two Dartmouth sons, John '64 and Dwight '70.
To serve as vice president for the coming year the Alumni Council elected Robert T. Mortimer '47, a partner in the Chicago investment firm of Blunt, Ellis and Simmons. J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College, was reelected secretary.
New Council Members
The Council elected five new members-at-large to serve three-year terms until June 30, 1972. They are Robert P. Burroughs '21 of Manchester, N. H.; John W. Sheldon '32 of Highland Park, Ill.; Duncan H. Newell Jr. '36 of Phoenix, Ariz.; Frank M. Hutchins '45 of Rochester, N. Y.; and Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50 of Pawtucket, R. I.
The Council also elected Walter L. Bush Jr. '51 of Minneapolis as an alumni member of the Athletic Council for three years. It reelected John H. Hatheway '48 of New York as its representative on the Hanover Inn board of overseers, and reelected Ralph N. Hill Jr. '39 of Burlington, Vt., as its representative on the board of proprietors of The Dartmouth.
Last month's meeting of the Alumni Council, its 118 th, was attended by 37 of the Council's 50 members and by 32 former members. Present also were three new members whose terms begin July 1: Howard W. Phillips '51 of New York, James D. Rogers '51 of Minneapolis, and Vincent W. Jones '52 of Los Angeles.
Council members and their wives were guests of President and Mrs. Dickey at a garden reception on Wednesday, June 18, before the annual dinner in Thayer Hall. At the dinner Mr. Howland conferred a Dartmouth Alumni Award on John K. Benson '31, president of the Shawmut Association of Boston (see following story), and also presented to Dean Thaddeus Seymour a framed copy of a Council resolution saluting him for ten years of dedicated service as Dean of the College and wishing him well in his new job as President of Wabash College. A showing of new Dartmouth films completed the evening's program.
Following committee meetings on Thursday morning, the Council held its first general session at 11 a.m. and heard President Dickey speak informally on the state of student and academic affairs. Another general session after lunch was devoted primarily to committee reports, and that evening Council members met with faculty members at three dinner discussions dealing with regional programs, medical education, and the student scene.
Friday morning's concluding session heard more committee reports and took up two major items of business: enlargement of the Alumni Council from 50 to 53 members, one of whom is to be an undergraduate, and the addition of a Committee on Athletics to the standing committees of the Council.
The enlargement of the Council will become effective September 1 following this advance notice of constitutional change published in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and the approval of the General Association of Alumni. In addition to an undergraduate member, to be elected by the Council, one of the three new members will be an alumnus of Tuck School, and the other must be elected from classes one to ten years out of college.
The new Committee on Athletics will be headed by the senior member of the Dartmouth Athletic Council, who is an ex-officio member of the Alumni Council — in this case, William H. Morton '32 of Rye, N. Y. Other members are Laurence G. Leavitt '25, Lester R. Godwin '30, N. Page Worthington '33, David T. Hedges '34, Phillip D. McInnis '36, James K. Tindle '36, Edward F. Perrin '38, F. Warren Miller Jr. '40, Robert S. Weil '40, Robert T. Mortimer '47, and Seaver Peters '54, director of athletics, secretary. The new committee will advise the DCAC, broaden the base of alumni understanding of the entire athletic program, and help to coordinate athletic policy and direction with all other programs of the Alumni Council and College.
At its closing session the Council also heard a report from Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, chairman of the Presidential Analysis Committee which was created last year to assist in the selection of Dartmouth's next President by defining College problems and priorities of the next ten years and by establishing criteria for the man to fill the President's office. Alumni Council members on this committee are Howland H. Sargeant '32, Frederick S. Beebe '35, George B. Munroe '43, and Robert N. Kreidler '51.
Alumni Council president William H. Timbers '37 (c) with Robert T. Mortimer '47,the new vice president, and J. Michael McGean '49, who was reelected secretary.
