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I just created this article. I'd like to see it become Featured content (would this be a list or an article? Hmm.) in the tradition of List of Dartmouth College alumni and, forthcomingly, List of Dartmouth College faculty.
A few notes. As a current student at Dartmouth College, I went over to Rauner Special Collections Library, where they furnished me with the list that I have scanned and uploaded to the right.
I don't know who composed this list, and obviously it does not stand up as a reliable source, but it did provide me a way to exhaustively cross-check Wikipedia for biographies of people on this list. This is primarily how I put together the "Notable past trustees" section. (This list does appear to have been composed in 1969, but the official Board of Trustees website has a list of Trustees Emeriti dating back to the 1960s, so there shouldn't be anyone falling between those cracks).
The highlighting is mine, indicating people who had Wikipedia articles and could be verified as having been trustees. For some, I penciled in addenda indicating what the exact name of their article was, in case it included disambiguating language.
On the list, there were six individuals who do have Wikipedia articles, but for whom I could not find a reliable citation indicating that they had served as trustees. For the record -- and in the hopes that someone else might find a citation -- they are:
- Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, trustee 1828-1847
- Samuel Prentiss, trustee 1820-1827
- George Sullivan (representative), trustee 1829-1834
- Edward Silas Tobey, trustee 1863-1870
- Francis Brown, class of 1870, trustee 1905-1916
- John L. Sullivan (Navy), class of 1921, trustee 1957-1968
Dylan 02:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
Thanks for creating this article, Dylan. It is a vast improvement over what came before, and now you have given the world of Wikipedians something to modify and improve (and, unfortunately, fight over).
For starters, I think the article might be improved by reducing its reliance on the Dartmouth Review, since it is a relatively biased source. I will see if I can find more authoritative sources for the announcement that the board will expand to 22, for example. --Darkmouth 14:25, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- I agree on the Review. The stuff I cited from them is pretty neutral, factual things, but it would be a good idea to diversify our sources. (I used the Review so heavily because they seem to be the only ones capable of plodding through this really complex series of issues!)
- I'm liking your contributions -- looks like you're making a lot of progress. Dylan 18:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks, Dylan. I was worried that some people would want to put an anti-trustees spin on things and would undo changes that were meant to be neutral. I'm done tinkering for now. Future changes that someone might take up include an explanation of the board's establishment and first meetings, information on the board's role in the Dartmouth College Case (without duplicating that entry), and details about the legislative (and now, home-rule) amendments to the charter that changed the board (size, residency, etc.).
- --Darkmouth 13:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The 2007 expansion decision
I expect the "recent controversy" section will be the scene of some passionate writing and editing that will need careful observation.
I modified the phrase "administration-controlled Trustees" in reference to Charter Trustees, since what defines them is not their being "controlled" by someone but their being nominated by the board.--Darkmouth 14:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Decapitalization of terms "trustee," "charter trustee" and "alumni trustee"
I'm just explaining my recent edit decapitalizing the use of the terms "trustee" generically, as well as "alumni trustee" and "charter trustee" specifically. Things like "charter trustee" appear to remain uncapitalized in the College's releases ([1]), The Dartmouth Review ([2]), and The Dartmouth ([3]). The Board itself seems to prefer "Trustee" and "Alumni Trustee" ([4]), but I suspect that this might just be a typical over-capitalization by the group writing on its own importance (cf. capitalization of "Class of" in opposition to normal usage [5]).
Interesting, all three non-board sources vary between "the board" and "the Board"; I'm inclined towards the latter (uniformly), given that it seems like a proper noun (and that like saying "the College," it would remain capitalized when abbreviated). Is this okay with people? Dylan 05:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
- That is a good idea. The article is about the Board, and little else needs capitalization. I have tried to follow your form in my changes.
- --Dartmothian 15:21, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] By Seat
Is there an easy way to learn in the archives which trustee succeeded to which seat (i.e. who held it before him, and before him)? Or do elections involving multiple open seats at once mean that no one knows who held a particular seat in the past? Dartmothian (talk) 20:30, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Other trustees
The following is just a wiki-formatted copy of the scanned lists above for the trustees that (1) aren't already in the article and (2) aren't among the few just listed above. This is a way to monitor trustees whose articles are created. Dylan (talk) 06:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
| Name | Elected | Left/retired | Graduated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Atkinson | 1769 | 1779 | |
| George Jaffrey | 1769 | 1788 | |
| Daniel Pierce | 1769 | 1773 | |
| Peter Gilman | 1769 | 1776 | |
| William Pitkin | 1769 | 1773 | |
| Benjamin Pomeroy | 1769 | 1784 | |
| James Lockwood | 1769 | 1772 | |
| John Smalley | 1769 | 1774 | |
| William Patten | 1769 | 1775 | |
| Bezaleel Woodward | 1773 | 1804 | |
| Eden Burroughs | 1773 | 1813 | |
| John Sherburne | 1774 | 1777 | |
| Elisha Payne | 1774 | 1801 | 1779 |
| Sylvanus Ripley | 1775 | 1787 | 1772 |
| Samuel Phillips | 1775 | 1788 | |
| David McClure | 1777 | 1800 | |
| Joseph Huntington | 1780 | 1788 | |
| Levi Hart | 1784 | 1788 | |
| Bulkley Olcott | 1788 | 1793 | |
| Job Swift | 1788 | 1801 | |
| Peter Olcott | 1788 | 1808 | |
| Israel Evans | 1793 | 1807 | |
| Lyman Potter | 1793 | 1820 | |
| Joseph Bowman | 1801 | 1806 | |
| Stephen Jacob | 1802 | 1817 | |
| Timothy Farrar | 1804 | 1826 | |
| John Taylor Gilman | 1807 | 1819 | |
| Samuel Bell | 1808 | 1811 | |
| Asa McFarland | 1809 | 1822 | |
| Seth Payson | 1813 | 1820 | |
| Moses Paul Payson | 1817 | 1828 | 1793 |
| Ezekiel Webster | 1819 | 1829 | 1804 |
| John Hubbard Church | 1820 | 1840 | |
| Israel Werburton Putnam | 1820 | 1840 | 1809 |
| Nathan Lord | 1821 | 1845 | |
| Mills Olcott | 1821 | 1845 | 1790 |
| John Wheeler | 1826 | 1833 | 1816 |
| Edmund Parker | 1828 | 1856 | 1803 |
| William Hall | 1828 | 1831 | |
| John Aiken | 1831 | 1835 | 1819 |
| Zedekiah Smith Baratow | 1834 | 1871 | |
| Samuel Delano | 1834 | 1866 | 1823 |
| Samuel Fletcher | 1835 | 1858 | 1810 |
| George Kent | 1837 | 1840 | 1814 |
| Nathaniel Bouton | 1840 | 1877 | |
| Silas Aiken | 1840 | 1862 | 1825 |
| Joel Parker | 1843 | 1860 | 1811 |
| John Kelly | 1848 | 1857 | 1804 |
| Richard Fletcher | 1848 | 1857 | 1806 |
| Lyndon Arnold Marsh | 1857 | 1870 | 1819 |
| George Washington Nesmith | 1858 | 1890 | 1820 |
| Pliny Butts Day | 1863 | 1869 | |
| Benjamin West Bonney | 1865 | 1868 | 1824 |
| Edward Spaulding | 1866 | 1891 | 1833 |
| Edmund Randolph Peaslee | 1870 | 1878 | 1836 |
| Alonzo Hall Quint | 1870 | 1896 | 1846 |
| William Pickering Haines | 1870 | 1879 | 1831 |
| George William Burleigh | 1870 | 1878 | 1851 |
| Henry Fairbanks | 1870 | 1905 | 1853 |
| Josiah Gardner Davis | 1871 | 1891 |
| Name | Elected | Left/retired | Graduated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiram Hitchcock | 1878 | 1892 | |
| Wheelock Graves Veazey | 1880 | 1891 | 1859 |
| Clinton Warrington Stanley | 1881 | 1884 | 1849 |
| Isaac William Smith | 1885 | 1898 | 1846 |
| William Martin Chase | 1890 | 1917 | 1858 |
| James Bailey Richardson | 1891 | 1903 | 1857 |
| Carlton Pennington Frost | 1891 | 1894 | 1852 |
| Charles Warren Spalding | 1891 | 1895 | 1863 |
| Cyrus Richardson | 1892 | 1906 | 1864 |
| Frank Sherwin Streeter | 1892 | 1922 | 1874 |
| Charles Frederick Mathewson | 1894 | 1915 | 1882 |
| Benjamin Ames Kimball | 1895 | 1920 | 1854 |
| Edward Dana Redington | 1895 | 1905 | 1861 |
| Cecil Franklin Patch Bancroft | 1897 | 1901 | 1860 |
| John Robie Eastman | 1900 | 1912 | 1862 |
| William Henry Davis | 1901 | 1905 | 1874 |
| Melvin Ohio Adams | 1903 | 1908 | 1871 |
| Henry Hoyt Hilton | 1905 | 1915 | 1890 |
| Robert Moore Wallace | 1906 | 1911 | 1867 |
| Lewis Parkhurst | 1908 | 1941 | 1878 |
| John Martin Gile | 1912 | 1925 | 1887 |
| Henry Lynn Moore | 1915 | 1925 | 1877 |
| Henry Bates Thayer | 1915 | 1936 | 1879 |
| Edward Kimball Hall | 1915 | 1923 | 1892 |
| John King Lord | 1917 | 1926 | 1868 |
| Sanford Henry Steele | 1918 | 1920 | 1870 |
| Clarence Belden Little | 1921 | 1941 | 1881 |
| Harry Harmon Blunt | 1921 | 1923 | 1897 |
| Fred Arthur Howland | 1922 | 1932 | 1887 |
| Charles Gilbert DuBois | 1923 | 1933 | 1891 |
| Morton Chase Tuttle | 1924 | 1936 | 1897 |
| Edward Wallace Knight | 1925 | 1935 | 1887 |
| William Rensselaer Gray | 1926 | 1937 | 1904 |
| John Roy McLane | 1926 | 1956 | 1907 |
| William West Grant | 1931 | 1951 | 1903 |
| Philip Sanford Marden | 1932 | 1942 | 1894 |
| Victor Macomber Cutter | 1933 | 1951 | 1903 |
| Edward Sanborn French | 1934 | 1954 | 1906 |
| Arthur Hiler Ruggles | 1936 | 1946 | 1902 |
| John Fowler Gile | 1937 | 1955 | 1916 |
| William Joseph Minsch | 1937 | 1948 | 1907 |
| Harvey P. Hood 2nd | 1941 | 1967 | 1918 |
| Dudley Wainwright Orr | 1941 | 1929 | |
| Sigurd Stanton Larmon | 1948 | 1956 | 1914 |
| Lloyd DeWitt Brace | 1951 | 1925 | |
| Thomas Bradford Curtis | 1951 | 1931 | |
| Charles Joseph Zimmerman | 1952 | 1923 | |
| Albert Bradley | 1954 | 1961 | 1915 |
| Ralph William Hunter | 1955 | 1931 | |
| Orvil Eugene Dryfoos | 1957 | 1963 | 1934 |
| John Crawford Woddhouse | 1960 | 1968 | 1921 |
| William Eugene Buchanan | 1961 | 1924 | |
| John Doty Dodd | 1961 | 1922 | |
| Frank Leighton Harrington | 1962 | 1924 | |
| Roswell Foster Magill | 1962 | 1963 | 1916 |
| Frederick William Andres | 1963 | 1929 | |
| Thomas Wardell Braden | 1964 | 1940 | |
| Rupert Campbell Thompson, Jr. | 1967 | 1970 | 1928 |
| Ralph Lazarus | 1969 | 1935 | |
| Harrison Freeman Dunning | 1969 | 1930 |
