Lazarus Nominated for Trustee

Ralph Lazarus '35 of Cincinnati, Ohio, who completes his first term as Alumni Trustee of the College in June, has been nominated by the Dartmouth Alumni Council to succeed himself for a five-year term ending June 1977. The Council's action was taken at its January meeting.

Nomination of the so-called Alumni Trustees, who number seven on the 16-man Board, is the responsibility of the Alumni Council acting in behalf of the alumni. Other nominations by the alumni at large may be made in accordance with constitutional procedures quoted at the end of this article. Actual election of Trustees is the responsibility of the Board.

Mr. Lazarus is chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, Inc., the nation's largest department store chain. He began with them upon graduation in 1935, rose to the presidency in 1957, and became chairman in 1967. One of the most respected spokesmen for American business, he is a trustee and vice chairman of the research and policy committee of the Committee for Economic Development, for which he headed a two-year study of U. S. public education in 1958-60. He is vice chairman of the executive committee of the Business Council, and is a director of the General Electric Company, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Scott Paper Company.

Mr. Lazarus is currently a director of the U. S. Committee for Refugees and United Way, a trustee of the U.S. Churchill Foundation, and a member of the Business Committee for the Arts, National Committee for Revenue Sharing, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. He has been prominent in the work of B'nai B'rith, the United Jewish Fund, the Peace Corps, and educational programs at Harvard and and is past president of United Community Funds and Councils of America.

For Dartmouth he has been an Overseer of Tuck School, Alumni Council member, Alumni Fund chairman, and member of the national executive committee of the Third Century Fund. He has three Dartmouth sons: Richard '67, John '68, and James '70.

PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS

Unless other nominations are received within two months of this published report, the name of Mr. Lazarus will go to the Board of Trustees as the nominee of the alumni for the vacancy on the Board. Following is the section of the Alumni Association constitution providing for Trustee" nominations 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."

Ralph Lazarus '35