Alumni Council Nominates Three for College Trustees

To fill three alumni vacancies occurring on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees next June 30 the Dartmouth Alumni Council at its Hanover meeting, January 16, selected as its nominees David P. Smith '35 of San Francisco, Richard D. Lombard '53 of Rye, N. Y., and David T. McLaughlin '54 of Minneapolis.

The new Alumni Trustees, to be elected by the present members of the Board from the nominees presented to them, will serve initial terms of five years. They will fill the three vacancies resulting from the completion of second terms by John D. Dodd '22 of Hampton, N. J., and Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, Ohio, and by the elevation of William E. Buchanan '24 of Appleton, Wis., from Alumni Trustee to Charter Trustee.

By its vote last month the Alumni Council officially approved the recommendations of its Committee on Nominations, headed by John H. Hatheway '48 of New York City. The nominees were chosen from more than 100 names received in response to the committee's request that alumni at large participate in the nominating procedure. At the January 16 meeting the names of two other alumni — Sanborn C. Brown '35 and Robert N. Kreidler '51 - were placed in nomination from the floor. After full discussion, the Council's vote was for the three men proposed by the nominating committee.

Brief biographies of the three nominees, all of whom are trustees of other colleges, follow:

DAVID PARKHURST SMITH '35

Mr. Smith is vice president of Scudder, Stevens & Clark, the San Francisco investment firm he joined as a partner in 1964. He entered the securities field after an MBA at Stanford but left it in 1942 to become District Investigation Chief of the War Production Board. After the war, he joined Willis & Christy as investment counsel and in 1964 was vice president and director.

He is a trustee of Mills College and of the Pacific School of Religion, a member of the World Affairs Council and the Alameda County Republican Central Committee, and a former member of the Berkeley School Board and Municipal Revenue Committee. Mr. Smith belongs to the Commonwealth Club of California and the Sierra Club, and is president of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.

Winner of the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1969, Mr. Smith was president of the Northern California Alumni Association in 1951-52, president of the General Association of Alumni in 1959-60, a member of the Alumni Council from 1962 to 1966, and a member of the national, executive committee for the Third Century Fund.

His father, Selden C. Smith '97, and father-in-law, Robert F. Leavens '01, were Dartmouth graduates, and his brother Ritchie C. Smith '26 and one of his sons, Robert S. Smith '57, are also Dartmouth men.

RICHARD DAVID LOMBARD '53

Mr. Lombard, president and trustee of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation of Dayton, Ohio, is chairman of the board of the New York investment firm of Lombard, Vitalis, Paganucci and Nelson. After graduation from Dartmouth he served four years in the Marine Corps and then in 1961 formed his present company with two Dartmouth classmates. He was vice president and treasurer of the company until 1969 when he became chairman.

In addition to heading the Kettering Foundation, he is a trustee of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City and of Bennett Junior College, which he also serves as treasurer. He is on the board of directors of the United Hospital in Rye, N. Y., and is a past chairman and president of the Rye United Fund.

He has been active in Dartmouth alumni affairs, serving on the Alumni Council from 1967 to 1970 and on the national executive committee for the Third Century Fund. He was a member of the executive committee for the Dartmouth Medical School's capital gifts campaign, and in 1969 and 1970 he was" chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.

DAVID THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN '54

Mr. McLaughlin is president and chief operating officer of Toro Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, producers of lawn care equipment. He went to Toro in 1970 from Champion Papers, Inc. where, between 1957 and 1970, he held a number of executive positions, the latest as president of their subsidiary, Champion Packages Company.

For some years a resident of Winnetka, Ill., Mr. McLaughlin is a trustee of George Williams College in Downers Grove, Ill., and of the Winnetka Community House. He is also on the board of directors of St. Leonard's House in Chicago, and is president of the Young People's Group of his church.

As a Dartmouth undergraduate, Mr. McLaughlin won Phi Beta Kappa honors in his junior year and the Barrett Cup for greatest promise in his senior year. He was president of the Undergraduate Council and was on the varsity football, basketball, and track teams.

His activities on behalf of the College include serving as class president from 1960 to 1964, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago, and a member of the Chicago executive commit- tee of the Third Century Fund. At present he is chairman of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School.

PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS

Unless other nominations are received within two months of this published report, the names of Messrs. Smith, Lombard and McLaughlin will go to the Board of Trustees as the nominees of the alumni for the vacancies on the Board. Following is the section of the Alumni Association constitution providing for Trustee nomimations other than those put forward by the Alumni Council:

"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees.

"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustee shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."

David P. Smith '35

Richard D. Lombard '53

David T. McLaughlin '54