2008 Association of Alumni Candidates

Charles J. Urstadt ’49 ’51Tu, Bronxville, NY
INDEPENDENT, PRO-PARITY PETITION CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Dartmouth BA ’49; MBA ’51; Cornell LLB ’53; Pace LLD (Hon) ’90; Lt. USNR ’54-’56; New York State Commissioner of Housing ’67 – ’73; Founding Chairman of Battery Park City ’68 – ’78; Trustee, Pace University  ’72 to Present; Trustee, TIAA-CREF ’90 -’02.

At Dartmouth--Captain of swimming team and two time All American in Masters Swimming. Hold five National records and won the World Championship in 2000 and the 50 meter Breast Stroke Age group 70-74.  Presently, CEO of Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc, a New York Stock Exchange listed company with headquarters in Greenwich, CT.

“I support the efforts of the current Executive Committee to prevent the Board of Trustees from discarding the 1891 Contract which has so clearly benefited Dartmouth. The alumni of Dartmouth College – who created the nearly 4 billion dollar endowment – are really its shareholders and deserve to have a voice not controlled by the administration and the faculty. They should be a VOX CLAMANTIS in Hanover, not IN DESERTO.

“As chairman of a NYSE listed company, I am particularly struck by the fact that the Trustees’ board-packing plan is completely opposite to the direction of reform of corporate governance in the United States today.  If elected I will work to strengthen the Association of Alumni, making it a more independent body, free of administration control and fulfilling its role to democratically select eight of the eighteen College trustees in accordance with the 1891 Contract.”

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