An Alternate Interpretation of the Alumni Election

By Merle Adelman, Former First Vice President, Association of Alumni

Published on Friday, September 28, 2007

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To the Editor:

In Joe Asch '79's recent column ("Time for Wright to Step Down," Sept. 26), he cites the election of the Association of Alumni as a referendum on President Jim Wright. The results reflect no such rejection of the administration. Three of the four elected Association Officers (President, First Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer) ran as nominated (and not petition) candidates, and it was a nominated candidate (Kate Aiken '92) who received the highest number of votes cast. Most telling was the election of David Spalding '76, Vice President for Alumni Relations and a prominent member of the Wright Administration. He received the second highest number of votes cast.

I hope that the alumni reading Asch's diatribes will keep in mind an important lesson we all learned at Dartmouth: Do your homework.

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