Dunning Is Nominee For Alumni Trustee
Harrison F. Dunning '30 of Moylan, Pa., who completes his first fiveyear term as an Alumni Trustee of the College in June, has been nominated by the Dartmouth Alumni Council to succeed himself for a second term ending in June 1978. 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. Dunning is the retired chairman of the board of the Scott Paper Company, which he joined in 1935 as a salesman. He rose in managerial and executive positions until he became president in 1962. He served as chairman of the board from 1968 until his retirement two years ago.
In addition to being a director of several of the country's largest companies, Mr. Dunning has been Commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority, a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a director of the Greater Philadelphia Movement, a member of the Chase Manhattan Bank's international advisory committee, and a trustee of Pierce Junior College in Philadelphia. For advisory services to Brazilian paper companies he was recently honored by the International Executives Service Corps.
As a Dartmouth Trustee, Mr. Dunning is chairman of the Board's Committee on Resources and a member of the Executive Committee. He is a former member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council and the Board of Overseers of Tuck School, and was chairman of the major gifts committee of the Third Century Fund. He is the father of Harrison Dunning '60.
PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS
Unless other nominations are received within two months of this published report, the name of Mr. Dunning 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.
Harrison F. Dunning '30
