Talk:Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College

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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)

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)

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, The Dartmouth Review , and The Dartmouth. The Board itself seems to prefer "Trustee" and "Alumni Trustee", 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 ).

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)


 * 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)

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)

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)

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