Talk:Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 30, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?

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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

Kane5187 02:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. Kane5187 18:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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? Kane5187 05:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. Kane5187 (talk) 06:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

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