Notre Dame, Inc., Dec. 17 – Ten alumni of the University of Notre Dame are vying for five seats on the 13-member Alumni Association Board of Directors in national ballot now going on among the university’s 43,000 graduates.

The alumni over the nation are divided into 15 regions and each year five regions nominate two men to run for a three-year term on the board.

The regions and the candidates are as follows:

Region 2 (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Kansas) – Vincent J. Duncan (’44), director of Walter Duncan Oil Properties in Denver, Colo., and Robert A. Erkins (’47), owner of the Snake River Trout Co. near Buhl, Idaho.

Region 5 (Iowa, Missouri) – John T. Massman (’56), vice president of Massman Construction Co., Kansas City, Mo., and Richard Delaney (’37), vice president of Midwest Biscuit Co. in Burlington, Iowa.

Region 11 (Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut) – J. Richard Lamere (’49), Duxbury, Mass., labor editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler, and Robert L. McGoldrick (’56), West Hartford, Conn., a senior account executive for General Life Insurance Co.

Region 12 (East Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware) –Leonard H. Tose (’37), Bridegport, Pa., president of Tose, Inc., trucking firm and the KS Canning Company in Paterson, N.J., and Water J. Short (’39), Washington, D.C., senior vice president for finance and administration of Allegheny Airlines, Inc.

Region 15 (N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia, Florida) – Frank L. McGinn (’52), owner of McGinn Bros. Realtors in Pompano Beach, Fla., and Edward M. Abrams (’50), vice president and director of A.R. Abrams, Inc., in Atlanta, Ga., construction, property development and manufacturing firm.

Voting will be completed in Jan. 1, 1969.