Press Director Retires

The Board of Trustees at its April meeting passed a resolutipn of appreciation to Victor G.F. Reynolds '27, retiring director of the University Press of New England.

Mr. Reynolds came to Hanover in 1970 as founding director of the Press following his retirement from a similar post with the state-wide University Press of Virginia. He had previously been director of the Cornell University Press.

President Kemeny read the resolution on behalf of the Board and presented Mr. Reynolds with a signed copy at a luncheon given in his honor by a group of friends and colleagues later in the spring. J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College, presented Mr. Reynolds with a citation and a photograph of Dartmouth Hall. On behalf of the Press' Board of Advisers, James Hornig, Professor of Chemistry and Director of Graduate Study, presented Mr. Reynolds with a framed $2 bill, representing his entire remuneration for two years as a dollar-a-year man.

The text of the Trustees' resolution was as follows:

WHEREAS Victor G. F. Reynolds of the Class of 1927, at the height of a long and distinguished career in the field of publishing, did in the spring of 1970 respond to the pleas of President John Kemeny and other College officials by coming to Dartmouth to establish a cooperative regional university press; and

WHEREAS to that end he has labored assiduously for two years, without financial compensation, and has, moreover, suffered without complaint the buffeting by icy winds of the North to a spare frame more used to the balmy breezes of Virginia; and

WHEREAS prevailing over these and other adversities, he has succeeded in the goal he set for himself two years ago with the approval of the Board of Trustees, and has nurtured into existence the University Press of New England, now sponsored by Dartmouth, Brandeis, Clark and the University of New Hampshire;

Now THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Trustees of Dartmouth College do hereby express warm appreciation to Victor Reynolds for this labor of love in the interests of Dartmouth and university publishing and wish him and Mrs. Reynolds health and happiness as he prepares to retire as Director of the University Press of New England.