Five Alumni Elected Trustees

David R. Weber '65, a 27-year-old teacher of English at Phillips Exeter Academy, was elected a Charter Trustee of Dartmouth College at the April meeting of the Board. His term began immediately after the session, making him the youngest member of the Board in recent Dartmouth history.

Weber succeeds Frank L. Harrington '24 of Worcester, Mass., whose resignation after nine years as Trustee was accepted with the Board's formal expression of gratitude for his service to the College.

One other Charter Trustee and three Alumni Trustees were also elected at the April meeting. Robert S. Oelman '31 of Dayton, Ohio, who completes his second five-year term as Alumni Trustee in June, will become a Charter Trustee at that time and will be eligible to serve on the Board for five more years.

In order to stagger the terms of the three newly elected Alumni Trustees, the Board decided that one of them should begin his term immediately and that the other two elections should become effective in June, when vacancies will occur. The name of Richard D. Lombard '53 of New York City was drawn by lot, and he therefore became an Alumni Trustee to fill the vacancy that was created when William E. Buchanan '24 of Menasha, Wis., was elevated to Charter Trustee upon the death of Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28.

The two Alumni Trustees taking office in June are David P. Smith '35 of San Francisco and David T. McLaughlin '54 of Minneapolis. They will fill the vacancies occurring when John D. Dodd '22 of Hampton, N. J., and Mr. Oelman complete the limit of two five-year terms. In continuing on the Board as Charter Trustee, Mr. Oelman will succeed Dudley W. Orr '29 of Concord, N.H., senior member of the Board, who in June will end thirty years of Trustee service.

Last month's elections give a new youthful character to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, as called for by the Trustees at their October meeting. Mr. Weber is less than six years out of college, and Mr. Lombard and Mr. McLaughlin both graduated less than twenty years ago. Under the recent revision of the Board's by-laws, the service of Charter Trustees will be limited to 15 years and that of Alumni Trustees to ten years.

Mr. Weber, who entered Dartmouth from Danbury (Conn.) High School, had a distinguished undergraduate career as scholar and campus leader. Graduating with summa cum laude honors in English, he undertook advanced study at Columbia as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and also did graduate work at Cornell. He joined the Exeter Academy faculty a year ago.

At Dartmouth, he was president of the Undergraduate Council and a member of Palaeopitus and the Judiciary Committee. He also ran on the freshman track team, won his letter in cross-country, and was president of Phi Tau fraternity. His address to the College at Convocation in September 1964, defining the "whole man" and criticizing campus values, is still remembered as an exceptional student performance.

The Board of Trustees will hold its next full meeting during Commencement weekend in June. Mr. Smith and Mr. McLaughlin will attend but will not become voting members until after the session.

Harrington Fund Established

On the day he retired as Dartmouth Trustee, Mr. Harrington was honored by a surprise gift to the College in his name from his daughter and his three sons. They jointly contributed a fund of $BO,OOO to endow the Frank L. Harrington Hopkins Center Fund.

Mr. Harrington was a prime mover in the establishment of the Dartmouth Arts Council, a Hopkins Center advisory body, and currently he serves as the Council's chairman. Upon the completion of his service as a Charter Trustee of the College, he was characterized by Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Board chairman, as "one of the key men behind the flowering of the arts at Dartmouth."

The gift in their father's honor was made by Mrs. John M. Stevenson of Fort Worth, Texas; Frank L. Harrington Jr. '50 of Weston, Mass.; Thomas B. Harrington '54 of Wilton, Conn.; and George C. Harrington '61 of Framingham, Mass.

Mr. Harrington was elected a Charter Trustee of Dartmouth College in January 1962, at which time he was president of the Massachusetts Protective Association and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company of Worcester, Mass. He joined the companies in 1929 after taking his LL.B. degree at Harvard (1927) and practicing law in Boston for two years. He rose successively to assistant secretary, assistant counsel, counsel, and vice president, and in 1945 was elected president. He became chairman of the board in 1966.

Mr. Harrington has broad interests in the arts but has particularly been concerned with American colonial and early federalist silverware and paintings. Among the gifts he has made to Dartmouth are silverpieces by Paul Revere, Jacob Hurd, John Burt, and Jeremiah Dummer.

David R. Weber '65 who became aCharter Trustee at the age of 27.