2010 Association of Alumni Executive Committee Candidates

Douglas Keare '56, '57Th, '57Tu
Association of Alumni Nominated Candidate for Second Vice President

Biography
Doug recently retired from a career in international development: World Bank, Ford Foundation, and Harvard University. He is now active in the areas of public education; the environment; cultural preservation; social entrepreneurship/innovation; and international development.  At Dartmouth he participated in freshman football, swimming, and rugby. He was a member and officer of Kappa Sigma (now Chi Gam) and has been corporation president for nine years; Sphinx and Phi Beta Kappa, graduating magna cum laude. Following Tuck-Thayer, he worked five years in industry; then earned a PhD in economics from Princeton. He has been an alumni councilor (1987-1990) and remained consistently active in class affairs, establishing a class scholarship for foreign scholars; serving as class president from 1976 to 1987, breaking the attendance record for a 25-year class in 1981; and serving as "whip" on the 50th Reunion Committee, engineering a second record turnout.

Statement
I adopt the statement of John Mathias in its entirety.

I have long been involved in issues of alumni participation in governance of the College; was a founding member and officer of Dartmouth Alumni for Open Governance; and, more recently, Dartmouth Undying. The perspective gained enables me to make the following observations regarding the future of alumni participation in governance:

1. Never, since I began dabbling in 1976, has Dartmouth had a better board of trustees. This is true of their qualifications, which are impressive, but even more of their approach, which is open, candid, and transparent as never before.
2. This, together with the activities of members of this AoA slate and recent leadership of the Alumni Council, is tending toward development, or perhaps resurgence, of the strongest imaginable partnership between the trustees and non-trustee alumni across all matter.
3. Which leads me to the following concluding observations: It has become increasingly difficult to understand what the continuing opposition is about.  No clear statement on their purpose has emerged in close to two years.  This, perhaps, should not be particularly surprising. For I cannot think of a time during the thirty-three or so years I have been following such matters when even a loyal opposition has had a less useful cause.  Not when we have the opportunity—indeed, a clear mandate—to mobilize all our energies and resources in support of our excellent and exciting new president’s efforts to raise Dartmouth to new heights. Success seems certain if we do.

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