ALUMNI FUND GETS RECORD DONATION

A total of 11,504 Harvard alumni contributed $113,987 to the Harvard Fund last year, establishing a new high record for the number of voluntary contributors in any single year to an American college fund organization, Nathan Pereles Jr. '04, of Milwaukee, Wis., chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, reported today.

This is the eighth consecutive year that Harvard alumni have led all other college groups in the number of contributors.

The total amount given to the Harvard Fund since its organization in 1925 is $2,048,561 from 24,113 individual alumni. Records show a steady growth each year in the number of donors. Contributions have now been received from more than two-thirds of the living alumni of Harvard College.

First place in the number of contributors last year was held by the Class of 1925 for the fifth successive year, with 329 members giving, followed by the Class of 1927, with 326, and the Class of 1908, with 307.

Continuing the custom of recent years, donations of the Class of 1916, which as the 25th anniversary class of Harvard College made a special donation of $100,000 to Harvard were omitted from the Fund figures.

The Class of 1885, with 64 living members, took first place in percentage of contributors, with a large number of memorial gifts bringing the total to 104.7 percent. The Class of 1917 was first in amount contributed, with $13.882.

A total of 1,229 alumni of the Harvard graduate schools, all owing college allegiance to other institutions, contributed $6,293 to the Fund during the past year.

Officers of the Fund Council, besides Mr. Pereles, are Clarence R. Randall '12, of Chicago, III., vice-chairman; and David McCord '21, Cambridge Mass., executive secretary.