Alumni Fund Tops $2 Million

Dartmouth’s 1970 Alumni Fund went over the $2-million mark for the third consecutive year, maintaining the level of annual support that Fund leaders had set as the goal for the years during which the Third Century Fund was simultaneously carrying on its campaign for $51 million in capital giving.

The 1970 final figures showed $2,038,572 contributed by 20,877 alumni, parents, and friends of the College. These totals fell short of last year’s drive, however, by some $90,000 and 1200 donors. Alumni participation declined from 66% to 58%, but nationwide, in a year of campus problems and slowdown in the economy, this performance was still No. 1. The campaign was led by Richard D. Lombard ’53 of Rye, N. Y., chairman of the Alumni Council’s Alumni Fund Committee, and some 4200 class agents worked with him.

The 1970 Fund total included $67,000 contributed by 1300 parents and more than $lOO,OOO in corporate matching gifts. The Class of 1930 led all alumni classes by raising $62,000. Classes with more than $50,000 were 1925, 1926, 1929, 1931, and 1935.