2010 Association of Alumni Executive Committee Candidates

James E. Guth '77
Petition Nominated Candidate for Executive Committee

Biography
Jim Guth graduated magna cum laude in 1977 with Honors in Economics. He holds a Master’s Degree in Management from Kellogg at Northwestern and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.  Since 1997, Jim has been President and a Director of a private investment company with a portfolio of equities, fixed income, venture capital, and private equity partnerships. He served on the Advisory Committee of Sevin Rosen Fund IV and on the Board of ViroTex Corporation. Jim is an art collector and supporter of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum.

Statement
I adopt the statement of J. Michael Murphy and urge the election of our entire Dartmouth United slate.

This is an exciting time of new College leadership. Jim Kim has a vision of Dartmouth as a premier liberal arts institution designed to prepare students to make a difference in the world. Alumni representation can best support his vision if it is independent of the College itself.

Dartmouth’s damaged endowment, and the resulting budget cuts, will severely limit how President Kim’s ideas are implemented. To maintain or expand programs, the College must (1) reinvest the endowment, shedding investments in which Trustees have conflicts of interest; (2) redeem Dartmouth’s recent budget-management debt; and (3) reverse the serious decline of alumni participation in annual giving.

Currently, Dartmouth’s Trustees don’t enjoy the alumni confidence needed to boost giving. Alumni can insist that Trustees avoid financial conflicts and abide by a strict code of ethics. This is one of the reasons why parity is so important.

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