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GIFTS, GRANTS & BEQUESTS

JUNE 1970
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GIFTS, GRANTS & BEQUESTS
JUNE 1970

During this period when Dartmouth is reiving major support through the Third Century Fund and the continuing Alumni Fund, it is important not to lose sight of other ongoing way in which alumni and friends, corporations and foundations help to meet the challenge of distantly growing demands and increasing costs of operation facing the College. The purpose of this column is to . make appreciative record of gifts, grants and bequests of $5,000 or more — other than contributions to the Alumni Fund and outright gifts to the Third Century Fund. The College also receives many gifts of less than $5,000 and these are needed Ind warmly welcomed. In the six months, July-December 1969, the total of these more modest gifts, exclusive of those to the Alumni Fund AND Third Century Fund, was $254,153.

Bequests

Estate of WILLIAM H. BARCLAY JR. 1926: $180,000, unrestricted, and $10,000 for the Class of 1926 Memorial Fund.

Trust estate of R. MELVILLE CRAMER 1877: $33,351 to be added to earlier distributions of $272,317 for the R. Melville Cramer 1877 Foundation for fellowships.

Estate of WIFE OF AN ALUMNUS: $140,471, addition to fund, the name and purpose of which are to be designated.

Estate of MARTHA S. HADDEN, widow of Arthur A. Hadden 1909: $42,411 to establish the Arthur A. Hadden 1909 Memorial. unrestricted.

Estate of ROBERT F. CHARLES '23: $15,400 to establish a fund in his name to support the Chemistry Department.

Trust estates of E. PEABODY GERRY 1869 and his wife MARTHA J. H. GERRY: additional $365,006 for the E. Peabody Gerry 1869 Memorial (building).

Trust estate of FREDERICK V. BENNIS 1898: additional $166,550 for the Frederick V. Bennis 1898 Fund.

Estate of MARTIN F. HUBERTH 1925: $25,000 to establish the Martin F. Huberth 1925 Fund, unrestricted.

Estate of HARRY D. LAKEMAN 1896: $41,697 to establish the Harry D. Lakeman 1896 Fund, unrestricted.

Estate of DR. FREDERICK R. SANBORN 1899: $14,000 to establish a fund in the names of himself and his wife for the Medical School.

Estate of EDWARD C. HEWITT 1925: $26,102 to establish the Edward Cooper Hewitt 1925 Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Estate of DONALD W. GARDNER 1927: $5,000 to establish a fund in his name to benefit the Alumni Fund.

Trust of EDWARD TUCK 1862: $33,800 to be added to the Edward Tuck Endowment.

Gifts Subject to Life Income

ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1921: $9,350 for a fund in the names of himself and his wife, unrestricted.

CHARLES C. JONES 1918: $7,574, addition to his named fund to support the Alumni Fund.

ALUMNUS, CLASS OF 1924: $14,451 to establish a fund in the names of himself and his wife for general purposes.

NORMAN F. SMITH 1925: $70,687 to establish the Norman F. 1925 and Alice A. Smith Fund.

PARENTS of alumnus, Class of 1933: $48,326 to establish a fund in their names for general purposes.

ANONYMOUS ALUMNUS: $10,000 to establish a fund for purpose to be designated.

DR. GEORGE H. WOODRUFF 1918: $6,521, addition to the George H. 1918 and lone L. Woodruff Fund for the Medical School.

MR. AND MRS. MARTIN J. REMSEN 1914: $274,000 to establish two scholarship funds in the names of themselves and two nephews, plus an unrestricted fund in memory of another nephew, deceased.

HARFORD K. STEEN 1922: $298,980 to estab lish a fund in his name for general purposes.

MR. AND MRS. THOMAS G. MURDOUGH 1926: $545,125 to establish the Thomas Gorden Murdough 1926 and Grace Clarke Murdough Fund, purpose to be designated.

GEORGE G. ZAHM 1925: $20,502, addition to his named fund to benefit the Alumni Fund.

JOHN B. KENERSON 1928: $23,119, addition to the Edward H. Kenerson 1903 and John B. Kenerson 1928 Fund to benefit the Library.

ANONYMOUS DONOR: $82,000 to establish an anonymous unrestricted fund.

Foundations

AGNES M. LINDSAY TRUST: $16,000 for Medical School scholarships and $30,000 for the ABC Start-up Program.

THE CHARLES F. KETTERING FOUNDATION: $10,000 for the Foundation Years Program in the William Jewett Tucker Foundation.

ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION: $80,970 for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Scholarships.

THE JOHN R. RAIBLE FOUNDATION: $5,800 for the John Marshall Raible and David Gardiner Raible Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Corporations

GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION: $20,000 for the Thayer School Partnership Program.

GULF OIL FOUNDATION: $5,000 to support student assistants on computer software development at the Kiewit Computation Center.

GENERAL TELEPHONE & ELECTRONICS FOUNDATION: $5,450 for Thayer School Fellowships.

CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION : $20,000 for the Thayer School Partnership Program.

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE FUND: $9,966 for scholarships and $2,400, unrestricted.

Expensive Clean-Up When the Agricultural National Bank of Berkshire County (Mass.) offered a penny for each bottle and discarded can picked up in a comunity clean-up, it expected to disburse maybe $2500 to $3000. Citizens gathered up 1,180,043 bottles and cans and pocketed $11,800. Senior Vice President Selwyn Atherton '51 said, "I'm afraid it was my idea." But he added, "It was money well spent."