President's Report Cites Total Gift Of $2.1 Million as Cliffe's Largest; Jordan Reviews 16-Year Tenure

Radcliffe College received "the largest sum given to Radcliffe in any single year in history" during 1958-59, President Jordan noted in his final report. The gifts totaled $2,121,697, and were divided into $1,781,469 for capital funds and $340,228 in gifts to income.

The increase in funds for the period ending June 30,1959, is part of the ten-year program for Radcliffe College, which is now in its fifth year. More than $5 million has already been collected.

Jordan pointed out the success of the fund drive, saying that "we have crossed the great divide of our effort," and that "we have already gained a full year, with just a little to spare." Still, he warned, "there remains to be raised the great sum of almost $5 million, which will come to hand only as a consequence of unremitting effort."

On the solicitation of funds, he remarked, "I must state for the record the perhaps shameful confession that I have enjoyed every minute of fund raising."

An authority on English history who is retiring to devote his full attentions to research and teaching, Jordan refused to blame the stresses of a college president's job for his decision to resign. He declined to "bewail the lot of the college president and to speak of the herculean burdens which he must bear."

Briefly reviewing is 16-year term as President, Jordan said, "We have been privileged indeed to serve a great college in the period when it reached its constitutional and spiritual maturity and when its academic strength became unexcelled." He expressed is gratitude for "the steady and unfailing support of the Council and of the Trustees."

Since Jordan will be on a leave of absence during the Spring Term, his successor, Mrs. Marry I. Bunting, will act as President, beginning Feb. 1. She will also become a lecture in Biology, effective the same date.