With the recent election of Mitch Kurz ’73, the Dartmouth board of trustees has grown to include 26 trustees. The College Charter of 1769 invested the board with the authority to “make and establish such ordinances, orders, and laws as may tend to the good and wholesome government of the said College and all the students and the several officers and ministers thereof.” Here’s a breakdown of who’s who on the board today.
TRUSTEE FIRSTS AFRICAN-AMERICAN: HARCOURT DODDS’58, 1973 // FEMALE: PRISCILLAK.MAYNARD (WIDOW OF HENRY FRECHETTE ’41), 1979 // ALUMNA: ANN FRITZ HACKETT’76, 1982 // ASIAN-AMERICAN: MICHAEL CHU’68, 2000 // ALUMNA CHAIR:SUSAN DENTZER’77, 2001 // HISPANIC:JOSE FERNANDEZ’77, 2002
