Trustees nominated

The Dartmouth Alumni Council, at its November meeting, renominated Michael Heyman '51 and nominated Joseph D. Mathewson '55 to serve five-year terms as Alumni Trustees, beginning June 1987.

Heyman, who joined Dartmouth's Board of Trustees in 1982, is chancellor of the University of California. A former law professor, he is nationally recognized as an expert on regional and urban planning.

After graduation from Dartmouth, Heyman served as a Marine officer in the Korean War. He then earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1956 and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1959.

Earlier in his career, he served as law clerk to the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as chief law clerk to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren.

In 1986 he was elected chair of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. He also is a trustee of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Mathewson is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Mathewson, Hamblet and Casey. He holds LL.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Law School.

Following graduation, he studied international relations at Johns Hopkins and spent two years in the navy before becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and CBS. He served as press secretary to Illinois governor Richard Ogilvie before forming Mathewson Communications Services in 1971. He next entered law school, during which he served as executive assistant to the Illinois Attorney General. He currently chairs the boards of five community banks in the Chicago area. He also has chaired the Cook County Republican Finance Committee.

Unless other nominations for either or both seats are received within two months of this published report, the names of Heyman and Mathewson will go to the Board of Trustees as the nominees of the alumni. Following is the section of the Alumni Association constitution providing for Trustee nominations:

Within two months after such publication in the Alumni Magazine, any 250 members qualified to vote may file with the secretary of the Association a petition over their own signatures for the nomination as Alumni Trustee of an eligible alumnus. If one or more candidates is so nominated by petition, said secretary shall as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition send to each alumnus eligible 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 vote by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees, and the polls shall close on the May 15th before Commencement unless another date is specified by the Executive committee of the Association.

If no candidate is 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.