Dear Class Presidents and Newsletter Editors:

The work of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee is officially underway. The purpose of this note is to advise you, as Dartmouth alumni leaders, of where we are in the process and encourage you to help us continue to generate good ideas for candidates to consider for the upcoming election. We would appreciate it if you could forward this communication on to your constituency as appropriate. Our role in the coming months is to attract and recruit the best talent to run for the two open trustee seats that alumni will vote on next spring.

We are conducting a rigorous process that hopefully will identify and attract the most qualified alumni willing to serve and run. We want to incorporate a wide spectrum of views. We want alumni to feel good about the nominating process that we intend to make fair, inclusive and transparent, yet also appropriately professional and discrete to those under consideration, as all search processes need to be.

The Nominating Committee operates independently of the college. It consists of 8 members who have been appointed or elected by their peers on the Alumni Council. The collective profile our committee is representative of not only the 124-person Alumni Council but 70,000 alumni across a number of dimensions:

* By class (Undergraduate classes of '65, '70, '73, '81, '82, '87, '91 and Tuck class of '89);

* By geography (CA, MI, GA, DE, NJ, NY, MA);

* By profession (consultants, professionals and executives in the healthcare, media, technology, financial services, project management, the search and legal professions, as well as some with previous foreign service, government and non-profit sector experience);

* By undergraduate major (Government, English, Engineering, History, Urban Studies, Asian Studies, Economics and Visual Studies);

* By undergraduate activity (six fraternities and sororities, four senior societies and activities that include rugby, student workshops, Green Key, football, track & field, skiing, Aegis, glee club, crew, debate, Tucker Foundation and class leadership roles);

* By Dartmouth activity since graduation (as interviewers, alumni fund volunteers, district enrollment directors and/or club or class officers);

* By demographics (including two women, three people of color, and an Asian American);

* By Dartmouth legacy (three who are part of multi-generational Dartmouth families, either as legacies or parents);

* By leadership in the alumni community (including the current President and President-Elect of the Alumni Council) Each member of the Nominating Committee shares a passion for Dartmouth and will continue to invest enormous time in this process. We have already reviewed, over the course of sixteen meetings over the past year, hundreds of alumni profiles. We have started refining the list down to approximately four dozen highly qualified potential candidates, but continue to seek input. Although we met recently for a full day in New York City, we will have at least 3-4 more full-day sessions in New York, Boston and/or Hanover and numerous phone calls between now and early December to review every name submitted as well as others whom we believe merit consideration.

We welcome and encourage continued input from all alumni and hope that our desire for nominations is reaching everyone through at least one of the many communications thus far. Please feel free to contact tdaniels@spencerstuart.com or any committee member directly with your thoughts and recommendations. Nominations may be submitted online at http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/council/CommitteeNews/NominatingandAlumniTru
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THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ALUMNI TRUSTEE CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2011 ELECTION IS NOVEMBER 2, 2010. We look forward to hearing from you and aim to communicate with you periodically as the process evolves.

The Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee:

Thomas T. Daniels '82, Chair (New York, NY) Robert Charles '87 (West Bloomfield, MI) Danielle Dyer '81 '89Tu (Lenox, MA) Peter Frederick '65 (Fenwick Island, DE) Thad King '73 (Atlanta, GA) Jon Murchinson '91 (San Francisco, CA) Tom Peisch '70 (Wellesley Hills, MA) Tracey Salmon-Smith '87 (Manalapan, NJ)