2017 Best Practice Sharing by Officer Role Taken Directly from the FY2017 Class Activity Report: Fellow Officers Share Their Thoughts

2017 Best Practice Sharing by Officer Role Taken directly from the FY2017 Class Activity Report: Fellow officers share their thoughts CAR – Best Practices Report – FY2017 Class Presidents Class of 1946 We are looking for other Class activities. Class of 1954 1. Under chairmanship of Steven Mullins, we formed a three man committee to reinstate the Class of 1954 Award to honor classmates who might have been overlooked under the previous program. (More than 60 Awards were presented under that program). The committee met once in person and many times over the phone and by email. We have identified up to a half dozen possible deserving candidates. One award was presented at the annual Class holiday luncheon in New York in December 2016 to Wayne Weil. We anticipate the presentation of at least two awards during 2017. 2. We have created an internship endowment chaired by Don Berlin currently valued at over $165,000 to continue annual funding of student internships into the future with a goal of at least $300,000 by our 65th Reunion. 3. We have created a Widows Program under the guidance Sue Bastian (widow of Bryce Bastian D'54) to initiate and sustain communications with class widows and to encourage participation in class activities. Class of 1955 • We conducted successfully a class survey to assess “connected” to the class/college. Conclusion: Most feel connected especially through the NL, DAM, and DAM class notes. Also noted instances of connection reduced by health and mobility concerns due to age restricting travel Class of 1957 We have developed several funds over the years, including a Travel Fund at the HOP, an Erich Kunzel Fund with the Music Department, and our legacy fund, the Class of 1957 Fund for Great Issues Innovations at the Dickey Center. I found that it was possible to use the Funds to create a bridge between recipients of the Funds and my classmates, to allow them to be more involved with a part of the college, and one another. Because of the Travel Fund, we joined the Dartmouth Wind Ensemble and HOP Dance Ensemble on their trip to Costa Rica, making it a mini reunion for my class. We cooperated with Steven Swayne, the chair of the Music Dept., to have Kunzel Award winners join the class at our Homecoming dinner, and either perform or talk about how they used the award. We had a lunch in the Global Village at Homecoming that included my classmates, Great Issues scholars, and some Dickey Center staff. All of this activity was very successful, allowing alumni and students who would not otherwise meet, to get to know one another and interact. Class of 1958 Nothing this time around. Just stay the course! 2 CAR – Best Practices Report – FY2017 Class Presidents Class of 1959 • Redefine “newsletter” • 59 single-subject e-letters have been sent this year from several officers. • Subjects include (1) classmate stories/news; (2) upcoming class and College events; (3) passing of classmates; and (4) feedback from class-sponsored students (either in our class projects or scholarships through the DCF). • We eliminated formal newsletters (The '59 Line), since we are sending 50+ e-letters a year and have significantly upgraded our website to include more information and images / photos on a timelier basis. • Select media that are preferred based on the use of technology: • Within our shrinking class size, the 20% of the class who do not have e-mails are not as well-informed as those who have e-mail addresses. They will not be not receiving hard copies of former quarterly newsletters. • We are in the process of 'cleaning up' this list which has already been reduced from 120 to 95! • We will continue to publish the Year in Review in hard copy to all classmates. • Coordinate communication better to better informed classmates • We are making communication simpler - covering only one subject, at a time when possible. As our society “speeds up,” more people do not read thoroughly or retain information sufficiently. Single-subject communications increase the odds for being well-read/seen and more informative. This approach replaced the quarterly newsletter which is usually outdated. One message a week becomes the de facto newsletter. • When announcing an event, activity, newsworthy item, etc., we coordinate the message simultaneously in as many of our preferred media as possible. Some classmates read one medium, but not necessarily all. To increase the probability that the item is read/seen, this “simulcast” tactic helps increase the probability of effective readership/viewership. • This approach suggests that classes should consider a “Communications Chair” who coordinates ALL class communications. • His / her committee would include managing their Internet presence (webmaster) and publishing newsletters digitally and/or in print (newsletter editor). • The chair ensures that all communications consistently reinforces the class’s key message and other visual or text content. • As we rely more on digital communication, the lower the operating cost(e.g., printing, handling and mailing of materials.) • Continue the successes of the Class of 1959 “Women’s Initiative Network (WIN)” As a male-only class, the Class of 1959 pioneered the active engagement of the distaff members of the ’59 family during our 45th Reunion. • Mission - “Wives and widows of the Class of 1959 connect, and stay connected, to each other and to the Class of 1959” • Plan 3 CAR – Best Practices Report – FY2017 Class Presidents • Support one another in person, in writing and in spirit • Keep the women of the Class of 1959 informed on all activities and decisions of the Class • Solicit and encourage women to provide feedback and ideas in all phases of Class activities • Participate in activities, including travel, all reunions and other class gatherings • Recent WIN Accomplishments, Programs and Activities • 2014: Helped orchestrate programs that focused on the Arts from a visual as well as a literary sense. Toured the major exhibition, Witness / Art & Civil Rights in the ‘60s, at the Hood Museum. We shared thoughts about the recent best seller, Boys in the Boat, at the Howe Library. • 2015: An exploratory book discussion when all shared her or his favorite book of the last six months. Already have 85 book titles and authors (in an Excel file) that classmates and wives/partners submitted. • 2016: WIN adds to its list of classmates’ preferred book titles • 2017: Helped add 7 wives / widows as FY2017 dues payers for the class. Class of 1960 No special secrets. Inclusiveness. Interesting agendas at Homecoming, Annual Meeting(heavy on the students the class supports) and Birthday Party every five years (KW in Feb., 2018) Class of 1961 • Developed from scratch an extensive and detailed ‘61 Class Communications Plan, which the Alumni Office stated was “an excellent document” and has referred to other classes seeking a reference guide. • Achieved 77.1% classmate participation in DCF, the highest of all Dartmouth classes and more than double the overall participation rate for the college. Used a highly effective “swat team” approach in the last two months that brought in 65 contributors in the last 14 days of the campaign. • Continued to build Dues Participation to 59.38%, third highest of all Dartmouth classes and 28% above the average of all classes. • Despite the passing of one co-chair’s wife and the life threatening illness of the other co-chair, gained 6 BTS participants. • Continued to build the Class of 1961 Legacy for the Performing Arts endowment to $1.22 million, which annually funds $50,000 of Hopkins Center programs. The class contributed $2,300 and classmates contributed another $4,423 to the Legacy. • Funded two Student Academic and Arts Projects totaling $6,000 and contributed $1,500 to Athletic Sponsors Program. • Total class project expenditures of $9,800 represented 55.5% of dues collected. Also set aside $40,000 collected from classmates for our newly approved endowed class project. • Held our first (and Successful) ’61 Virtual Reunion on the 61st day of 2017. 4 CAR – Best Practices Report – FY2017 Class Presidents • Planned, and Class Officers approved, the creation of a major new Class Project, to be endowed at $100,000, of which $40,000 of class funds collected from classmates have already been set aside, that will annually award support to two Dartmouth undergraduate student projects. • Monthly meetings of Class Officers by telecon, one actual class officer meeting at COW (attended by 10 class officers) regular class communication via iModules emails, regular website updating and one class meeting. • Maintained an expanded Obituary Archive, with info on deceased classmates and spouses posted on line, in class emails as well as personal letters and/or telephone calls going out to the spouse/significant other of each deceased classmate, and beginning this past year to each classmate who lost his spouse/significant other. Also, the Class makes a contribution of $100 to the ’61 Class’ Performing Arts Legacy fund in memory of each classmate who passes away during the year. • Established a Class of ’61 Archive of all Class Awards and class recognitions by the college plus all awards received from the College by individual classmates during the past 56 years since graduation. • Established a ’61 Distinguished Classmate Awards Program and Committee to recognize individual classmates who have distinguished themselves within the Class, the College and society in general. The initial recipients of the recognition have been selected and will be recognized at our next class mini-reunion in October. • Expanded and strengthened the ’61 Women’s Initiative Committee, whose three co-chairs are now formally recognized as class officers. [Editor’s note: class volunteers, not officers] Class of 1962 We have had a great reunion, reunion project, mini reunion and a wonderful website.

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