Alumni Fund Annual Report

This report details the extraordinary achievements for the 1974 60th Anniversary Alumni Fund Campaign. There are many highlights including these:

1 - A record total of $3,836,273, some $86,000 above our challenging goal and $590,529 over what was raised last year.

2 - A two percent gain in alumni participation (58% vs 56% in 1973), reversing a persistent decline since 1957.

3 - An all-time reunion gift record of $220,098 by the Class of 1938 on its 35th reunion, and an all-time record among non-reunion classes of $80,936 achieved by the Class of 1935.

4 - A record total of $7,617 by the youngest class, 1973, coming from 346 donors.

5 - New contributor records set by a majority of younger alumni classes who were chiefly responsible for the two percent gain in overall alumni participation.

The $250,000 Challenge Fund, put up by a group of anonymous alumni, was over-subscribed with 7,751 alumni increasing their gifts this year plus 2,891 gifts from alumni who did not contribute in 1973.

The Dartmouth Parents Fund, led for the third consecutive year by David A. Winer, reached a record total of $92,481 from 1,347 donors. Memorial gifts, honoring deceased alumni, were received from 2,019 widows, relatives and friends for a total of $210,367, while corporate matching gifts came from 2,115 alumni for a record total of $300,931.

The twelve reunion classes, sparked by 1938, contributed a record total of $1,283,825 - a new high for this program in its fourth year. The 50-year Class of 1924 raised $185,506, while 1934, for its 40th reunion, contributed $182,748. The Class of 1939 and 1940 had fine 35th reunion totals of $151,477 and $150,781 respectively, and the 15-year Class of 1958 chalked up an amazing campaign total of $120,428.

During the past two years of my fund chairmanship our annual giving program has raised over $7-million of unrestricted current use funds to help the College meet its operating budget. This impressive and important total results from the dedicated and thoughtful volunteer work by some 4,000 alumni who serve each year as Head Agents, Regional Agents, Class Agents. Reunion Giving Chairmen and Committee members and Memorial Gift solicitors. Behind these frontline workers are an enthusiastic and hard-working Alumni Fund Committee and a fine staff in Hanover. Most important is the understanding and generosity of over 20,000 men and women of Dartmouth whose annual gifts pour into Hanover each year as the life-blood of the College. It has been a great privilege to serve this cause, and I turn the Alumni Fund over to my successor, Charles Hood '51, with full confidence that the campaigns ahead will be even better.

Chairman

The newly elected Chairman of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund for the 1975 and 1976 campaigns is Charles H. Hood '51 of Brookline, Massachusetts. Charlie is the Treasurer of H. P. Hood Inc., a New England based dairy and food products firm. He is the son of Harvey P. Hood '18, former chairman of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and former Alumni Fund Chairman (1941-42).

After graduation from Dartmouth, he received his M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School and then spent three years as a Naval Officer before joining the family firm. He has been an active leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs serving as '51 Head Agent from 1963 through 1965, and the following five years as Class President. Charlie also served on the Executive Committee for the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign and on the Boston Executive Committe for Dartmouth's Third Century Fund Capital Campaign. This past year he was President of the Boston Alumni Association, after serving as an officer and Executive Committee member for several years.

The new Fund Chairman is a Director of the State Street Bank and Trust Co., a Trustee of Leslie College, Children's Hospital and the Joslin Diabetes Foundation, and is active in alumni affairs at Phillips Academy, Andover, and the Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Judy, have one son.

Reunion Class ResultsPERCENT CHALLENGEREUNION CLASS LEADERS DONORS PARTICIPATION AMOUNT OF 1973 $ EARNED 60th 1914* Abraham J. Newmark 101 119% $ 20,616 110% 55th 1919 . Robert N. Wallis 184 97 27,445 128 1,387 50th 1924 Phillips M. Van Huyck 328 92 185,506 387 14,380 William E. Buchanan 40th 1934* Allan C. Jacobson, Jr. 367 73 182,748 343 10,636 35th 1938* Robert P. Hallock, Jr. 353 60 220,098 558 18,041 Young P. Dawkins, Jr. 35th 1939* Robb M. DeGraff 319 58 151,477 272 10,288 Robert H. Howe 35th 1940* Arthur W. Ostrander 330 63 150,781 259 Elmer Browne J. Malcolm deSieyes 25th 1949* A. Clarke Church 320 57 107,360 405 17,270 Robert C. Rooke 15th 1958* Robert J. Eleveld 419 57 120,428 409 21.526 Herbert Swarzman 15th 1959* Richard N. Hoehn 402 55 51,677 238 14.092 Randall Malin 57 182, 6,906 15th 1960* Richard G. Harrison, 3rd 451 59 57,470 182 6,906 Seth DeV. Strickland 8,142 1,619 5th 1969 Thomas M. Parks 278 35 8,219 Total-All Reunion Classes 3,852 60% $1,283,825 313% $125,164 *Broke previous reunion dollar record