Morton, Kilmarx Elected Charter Trustees

Two new Charter Trustees of Dartmouth College, elected by the Board at its April meeting in Hanover, are William H. Morton '32 of Rye, N. Y., and Robert D. Kilmarx '50 of Barrington, R. I. They will assume office on June 12, the day after Commencement.

At the same time, the Board elected F. William Andres '29 of Boston to be its next chairman, also effective June 12. He will succeed Charles J. Zimmerman '23 of Hartford, recently retired chairman of the board of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, who retires from the Board next month after ten years as a Trustee, the last two as chairman.

Both of the new Charter Trustees are experienced in investment management. Mr. Morton, former president of the New York investment banking firm of W. H. Morton Company, is now president of the American Express Company. Mr. Kilmarx is executive vice president of the Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island, located in Providence.

The vacancies they will fill on the Dartmouth Board are being created by the retirements of Mr. Zimmerman and of former U.S. Congressman Thomas B. Curtis '32 of St. Louis. Mr. Zimmerman has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 and Mr. Curtis has served the maximum of three five-year terms, a limit on Board membership adopted by the Trustees two years ago.

Mr. Morton, an Ail-American quarterback for Dartmouth in his senior year and recently elected to the National Football Hall of Fame, has had a most distinguished business career and has for the past 30 years held a long sequence of alumni responsibilities, beginning as class agent from 1942 to 1947. He was chairman of the DCAC Football Advisory Committee in 1947, class memorial fund agent, 1947-52, and president of the Westchester Alumni Association, 1949-50. He was president of the Athletic Council, 1969-71; a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council twice, 1948-54 and 1969-71; and Metropolitan New York area chairman for the Third Century Fund.

Mr. Morton began his banking career with Chase National Bank upon graduation. He went to Chicago in 1937 to represent the bank and returned to New York five years later as vice president responsible for the bond and investment departments. In 1946 he established his own investment banking firm and was its president for 20 years. In 1966 he was named vice chairman and a director of American Express, which acquired his company as a separate investment subsidiary known as Equitable Securities, Morton & Company. In 1968 he became president of American Express and chairman of Equitable Securities, which latter post he relinquished last year.

Mr. Morton is a director of several companies and a member of Governor Rockefeller's Electric Power Commission, and was a member in 1970-71 of President Nixon's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulations. He is a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and of Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H. He has a 150-acre farm in Etna, a part of Hanover, where he raises Charolais beef cattle, imported from France.

Mr. Kilmarx, who as an undergraduate was a Rufus Choate Scholar, president of Palaeopitus, and varsity football manager, received his LL.B. degree at Harvard in 1953. After two years of Navy service during the Korean War, he joined the Boston law firm of Sherburne, Powers and Needham and became a partner in 1961. Four years later he moved to Providence to be vice president of the Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island, second largest in New England. In 1969 he became executive vice president in charge of the trust and corporate divisions, investments, and public affairs.

Active in civic affairs, he is a director of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Providence District Nursing Association, Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, Arts R.I., and the Rhode Island chapter of the National Citizens Committee, and is vice chairman of the trustees of the Trinity Square Repertory Theater. As an alumnus, he is currently a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council and chairman of its ad hoc Indian Symbol Study Committee. He is 1950's head class agent and was on the Rhode Island executive committee for the Third Century Fund.

An ardent yachtsman and skier, he was married in 1951 to Mary Ann Neidlinger of Hanover, daughter of former Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23.

The chairman-elect of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, F. William Andres '29, has been an Alumni Trustee since 1963. A partner in the Boston law firm of Sherburne, Powers and Needham, he might well be called a "trustee's trustee" in the academic world. He served as a trustee of Bennington College from 1956 to 1963, when he was named to the Dartmouth Board to fill an unexterm following the sudden death of Orvil E. Dryfoos '34, publisher of The New York Times. Mr. Andres is president of the trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he was graduated in 1925, and has served as president of its alumni association. From 1949 to 1964 he was a trustee and president of Beaver Country Day School, Brookline, Mass., and from 1966 to 1970 was a charter trustee of Champlain College.

In addition to his busy lives as lawyer and academic trustee, Mr. Andres has taken on many civic, church, and charitable responsibilities. He has been president and trustee of the Elizabeth Carleton House in Boston, a home for the aged, was a member of the Brookline Town Meeting, and served on the Brookline Personnel Board. His services to Dartmouth have been

many, varied, and continuous since graduation. He was class secretary for 25 years, from graduation to 1954, when he was named Dartmouth Secretary of the Year and also elected class president, a post he held until becoming a Trustee. He served two terms on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, 1950-53 and 1959-61, and in 1963 the Council honored his long service to the College by presenting him the Dartmouth Alumni Award. He was Boston regional chairman for Dartmouth's first formal capital gifts campaign, 1957-59, and was president, 1950-51, of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Greater Boston, after having earlier served as secretary.

Labor Papers Given

Papers covering almost half a century of labor-management negotiations have been presented to Baker Library by Abraham A. Desser, Commissioner of Federal Mediation, who retires in June from his position with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

During the 1920s and early '30s, Mr. Desser was an officer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and an international representative of the American Federation of Labor. After a period as a writer and researcher with the National Industrial Conference Board and a newspaper columnist, he became a manpower specialist, working in the White House under John Steelman, an assistant to President Truman and chairman of the National Security Resources Board.

Mr. Desser was later a foreign service officer with the Department of State, stationed in Paris and Rangoon. He joined the Federal Mediation Service in 1952.

The papers, which fill three large cartons, include correspondence with leaders in organized labor, industry, and government, as well as his own writings, published and unpublished. They were given to the library with the stipulation that they not be used during his lifetime. "The papers are, to say the least, controversial in some respects," he noted.

Mr. Desser's papers were given to the College on the suggestion of S. Avery Raube '30, a friend and former superior at the National Industrial Conference Board.

Native American Visitors

The White Roots of Peace, a group of North American Indians primarily of the Mohawk tribe, visited the campus April 12 to present "A Native American Cultural Experience," composed of films, lectures, exhibits, dances, and music.

They met with history and anthropology majors and other members of the College community in the morning and presented a film festival, concert, and lecture for the public at Spaulding Auditorium during the noon hour, native American dances at the Warner Bentley Theater and a feature film at Spaulding in the afternoon. A meeting patterned after the Longhouse Meeting of the Iroquois Nation was held in the Top of the Hop in the evening. Native American dishes were featured at Thayer Dining Hall at dinner.

The group, which takes its symbol from the Iroquois Tree of Great Peace which has four white roots going out to the four winds, was founded in 1969 to pursue the traditional Iroquois commitment to peace among men. Since then, its members have traveled over 200,000 miles through the United States and Canada, visiting colleges and universities, churches, high schools, prisons, and Indian groups. They publish a monthly newspaper Akwesasne Notes from the Mohawk Reserve on the St. Lawrence River.

Cataloguing Experiment

The College Library, in cooperation with the New England Library Information Network, is testing during the first half of 1972 a computer-based system designed for cheaper, more efficient production of catalogue-card records for library use. The six-months trial is being made under a grant of $53,589 from the Council of Library Resources in Washington, D. C.

The system involves a special telephone line to the Ohio College Library Center in Columbus, which has for some time been operating a remoteaccess computer service for about 50 libraries in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.

The OCLC has facilities for producing library catalogue cards from magnetic tape input to a computer. Stored in the Ohio computer are cataloguing data from tapes prepared by the Library of Congress, covering all English-language books published since 1969, approximately 200,000 in number.

Under the system being tested, an operator at Baker Library can type out on a computer terminal certain code letters based on a book's Library of Congress number, the author's name and first word of the title, or a more complete title. In seconds the cataloguing information will be relayed from Columbus, and the Hanover operator can request catalogue cards for the book. In like manner, cataloguing information from Baker can add to the OCLC repository information.

In Brief ...

To fill a freshman class of 975—800 men and 175 women—the College last month sent out letters of acceptance to 1530 applicants. The 1530 total consisted of 1300 male and 230 female acceptances.

In addition to the 175 women in the Class of 1976, Dartmouth is admitting 75 more as transfers into the upper classes. With another 125 attending Dartmouth for one year under the 12- College Exchange Program, the total of women undergraduates on campus next fall will be 375.

The grand total of applicants for admission was 6200—4850 men and 950 women for the freshman class and 400 women for the 75 places as transfer students. This compares with 4700 men who applied for the Class of 1975.

At the request of the Committee on Educational Planning, the executive committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted that no regular classes be held on May 4 in order to accommodate a Special Convocation on Education at Dartmouth. The day's program will consist of an address by the President of the College and seminars run by the Student Forum. May 4 classes will be moved to the X hours of that or another week.

Two of Hanover's historic houses at 39 and 41 College Street are being moved this spring to a new site on North Park Street at the north end of College Park. The expenditure of funds to move them reflects the Trustees' concern for preserving the architectural heritage of the college community. The house at 39 College Street, known as the Dr. Frederic P. Lord House, has to make way for the construction of Dartmouth's new Science Center, which will be started this spring. The house at 41 College Street, known as the President Nathan Lord House, faced eventual removal within five to ten years.

By moving both houses at the same time, it will be possible to use a shorter and more direct route through College Park instead of the roundabout route No. 39 alone would have had to follow. An old road already exists in College Park over some of the route, and fewer and younger trees will be cut down than would have been the case had the Hanover streets been used.

Through a grant from the Eleanor and Charles A. Dana Foundation, an addition to the Dana Biomedical Library is now under construction. A new fourth level will provide additional stacks for books, as well as four seminar rooms and special carrels equipped with electronic learning devices for individual self-instruction.

In a salute to coeducation and as a sort of farewell to the last allmale term at Dartmouth College, the Dartmouth Film Society and the Women's Exchange Committee are treating the campus to a Women's Film Festival this spring. Sunday films present women as viewed through the eyes of the greatest male directors of the '30s, and this part of the series has the appropriate male-chauvinist title, "Dames, Chicks, Broads." Wednesday films are the work of women directors of the '60s and '70s, among them Kate Millet, Barbara Loden, Susan Sontag, and Karen Sperling.

F. William Andres '29 of Boston, whobecomes Board chairman as of June 12.

William H. Morton '32

Robert D. Kilmarx '50