Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee

The mission of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee is to independently identify the most qualified
alumni to serve in leadership roles on the Alumni Council and the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. When an
alumni-nominated seat opens on the board, the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee presents
no more than two candidates for each such vacancy to the Alumni Council for approval, after which an announcement
is made to the overall alumni body. The committee welcomes alumni trustee candidate recommendations from alumni
at any time.  Dedicating many volunteer hours, committee members review hundreds of recommendations each year.
They research potential candidates, compile biographies, thoroughly discuss each candidate's qualifications,
and speak with candidates' references.

The committee also works with alumni constituencies to fill vacancies on the Alumni Council in accordance with the council's constitution. 

Report from the 201st Alumni Council Session, December 2–4, 2010

On December 3, Tom Daniels '82, chair of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee, gave a Powerpoint presentation to the Alumni Council during which he presented Gail Koziara Boudreaux ‘82 and Bill Burgess '81 as the nominees for each of the two alumni-nominated trustee seats open on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. View the Powerpoint presentation here.

Letter to alumni on the nominating process for the two seats that will open next spring on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees (September 2010)

September 2, 2010

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 (California, Michigan, Georgia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts);
• 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 via the  Alumni Trustee Candidate Recommendation Form.  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))

Report from the 199th Alumni Council Session, December 3–5, December 2009

On December 4, Tom Daniels '82, chair of the Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee, gave a Powerpoint presentation to the Alumni Council during which he presented Morton Kondracke '60 and John Replogle '88 as the nominees for each of the two alumni-nominated trustee seats open on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. The following links offer all or highlights of the Powerpoint presentation:

Review entire presentation

Review Morton Kondracke '60 bio

Review John Replogle '88 bio

Review brief profile of Nominating Committee members