New Trustees
Two attorneys, one a civil rights expert and one a specialist in antitrust and labor law, have been named Trustees of the College. They are Berl Bernhard '51 of Washington, D.C., former staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Donald C. McKinlay '37 of Denver, Colo.
Both men were elected for five-year terms by the Board of Trustees at its April meeting. Bernhard, a partner in the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert and Bernhard, was nominated by the Board and will be a Charter Trustee. McKinlay was nominated by the Alumni Council and will be an Alumni Trustee. He is a partner in the firm of Holme, Roberts and Owen.
Bernhard succeeds Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31 of Hanover, a neurologist and retiring member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty, and McKinlay succeeds Thomas W. Braden '40 of Washington, D.C., nationally syndicated newspaper columnist.
Bernhard received his LL.B. degree from Yale in 1954. He served as staff director of Senator Edmund Muskie's campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1971 and was active in the Senator's behalf when he ran for vice president in 1968.
Alter serving a clerkship with Judge Luther W. Youngdahl of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Bernhard entered law practice in Washington, where he has remained. He was successively deputy director, acting staff director, and staff director of the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights from 1959 to 1963, when he became associated with his present law firm. He is also executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and since 1967 has been a member of the Board of Higher Education of the District of Columbia and a trustee of the new Federal City College.
McKinlay earned a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1940. He practiced law in Chicago from 1940-42 and then spent four years with the U.S. Navy. some of it in the Pacific theater in World War II.
He was in the general practice of law in Denver from 1946-51 and joined the Holme, Roberts and Owen firm in 1951 as a trial lawyer and partner. He has served on the Colorado Commission on Higher Education from 1966 and was its chairman from 1968-72. He has also been a director of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies since 1964. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association and a former vice president of the Denver Bar Association, and served as an assistant attorney general for Colorado during 1948-50.
The 16-member Dartmouth College Board of Trustees, a smaller board than usual among educational institutions, is known in the academic world as a hard-working body. It meets four times a year and its executive committee and other standing committees meet at more frequent intervals.
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