Bunker Is Chosen Class Agent Of Permanent Harvard Fund

On the recommendation of the Senior Class Officers, Robert M. Bunker '39, has been appointed permanent Class Agent for the Harvard Fund, according to an announcement made last night by David T. W. McCord '21, Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund Council.

The Harvard Fund was founded in 1925 in order to secure voluntary annual contributions from the alumni to support unrestricted activities of the College and Graduate Schools. It is now the largest alumni fund in the United States with 10,631 contributors in 1938; more than 20,000 individuals have contributed to it al one time or another, and they have given in excess of $1,700,000.

By special arrangement, all contributions made by members of classes not yet 25 years out of college are credited with compound interest toward the traditional $100,000 gift presented to the College by each class on its 25th anniversary.

Class of '39 to be Solicited

Following the 13 years old policy of soliciting the Seniors before graduation, Bunker is asking this year's class for voluntary fights to the Fund. Under the present system the Class of 1927, twelve years out off college, has already raised the equivalent of nearly $50,000.

Bunker, who comes form Roxbury, prepared at Roxbury Latin School, and has been Chairman of the Freshman Red Book, Ibis of the Lampoon, Treasurer of the Student Council, and is Chairman of the Senior Album Committee and a member of the Winthrop House Committee. He was one of the Junior Eight in his Class elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

The Harvard Fund Council, controlling board of the Harvard Fund, is composed of thirty elected and appointed alumni. About 65 active Class Agents do the campaign work.