Fund Report

Dartmouth's 59th Annual Alumni Fund campaign is humming along in high gear toward its $3-million goal. Totals on April 23 showed $1.57 million in pledges and gifts from 7600 donors, putting the 1973 campaign ahead of last year's pace by some $495,000, with the number of donors virtually the same.

A major portion of the increase has been provided by this year's reunion classes under the Class Reunion Giving Program. The 20th reunion Class of 1953 has already exceeded its $120,000 goal. The 50-year Class of 1923 has an even more impressive record of $145,000 already in hand toward the goal of $150,000, and 1933, observing its 40th reunion, reports $93,000 toward its $150,000 goal.

It is expected that by the end of the campaign the 12 reunion classes collectively will have raised just over $1-million for the Alumni Fund. faculty would total 110, which President Kemeny said was less than had been projected earlier but "still sufficient to provide a quality medical education."

Thirdly, the Board required, as a prior condition of a fund-raising effort, that the Medical School "explore possible new organizational structures which will strengthen the educational process, provide closer links to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and optimize the use of available resources throughout the entire College."

The Board also approved a recommendation to continue the transition to a full M.D. program by bringing student enrollment up to 64 M.D. candidates in each of the three classes by the start of the academic year 1976-77. It also agreed to establish a Board of Overseers for the Medical School and encouraged finding space in the Medical Sciences Building for ambulatory patient care facilities.

Trustee affirmation of the pioneer Medical School program offering the M.D. degree in three instead of the traditional four years followed receipt of a detailed report by a Medical School Survey Committee chaired by Dr. James C. Strickler '50, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Medicine-. The 11-man committee included President Kemeny, two members of the Board of Trustees — Lloyd D. Brace '25 and William H. Morton '32; Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44, Acting Dean of the Medical School and chairman of the Department of Physiology; and one alumnus. Dr. Merlin K. DuVal '44, former Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, H.E.W.