FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE DARTMOUTH AWARD

The Dartmouth Award, presented by the Dartmouth Lunch Club of Buffalo to the outstanding boy 'in the graduating class of each of the five local high schools, received considerable comment of a very favorable nature when the first annual presentations were made last June. All-round attainment forms the basis of the selection, the Awards following the general idea of the Barrett Cup at Hanover. There was a very noticeable and general expression on the part of the school authorities that the Dartmouth Lunch Club was making a gift of the greatest value. The alumni of nine colleges have been giving school cups, based on various sports but the field of individual all around attainment has up to now, been un-rewarded. The Award did not receive quite so much publicity in the papers -as did the two leading athletic cups given by other colleges for football and baseball supremacy but what attention it did receive was of a much more desirable character. The presentation coming as it did at the end of the school course gave the general impression that here was an individual reward for which everybody could work, and the receiving of which meant far more than athletic ability alone.

Of the five recipients of the first Awards, three were presidents of their respective classes, three had taken a leading part in athletics, one in dramatics, one in debating, one in journalism, two were athletic managers, one a school editor and last but not least, one was class valedictorian. All were leaders in their schools and well fitted to receive an award based on supremacy of Character, Achievement and Leadership. All five enter college this fall, none unfortunately coming to Dartmouth. The individual winners were:

William D. Roesser, Lafayette High; class president, leader in dramatics, manager of baseball team and on football team until forced off by injuries, enters University of Michigan.

Burt H. Maycock, Hutchinson High; class president, manager and captain track team, anchor man on champion interscholastic mile relay team. Maycock has a brother now at Dartmouth but he enters Princeton this fall.

James G. Goodwin, Masten Park High; class president, baseball team, debating, enters Columbia.

M. Irving Chriswell, Technical High; valedictorian, and winner of many scholarship honors, literary editor "The Techtonian." Chriswell was prevented from taking part in athletics by an attack of infantile paralysis which forces him to use crutches. In spite of this he was a very popular leader among his classmates. He enters Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

Neile H. King, South Park High; King was an all around leader, excelling in no one field. He enters the Dental Department of the University of Buffalo.

In each school the winner was announced at commencement exercises when the Award was presented. In only one case did the name of the recipient leak out beforehand. At one school the Dartmouth alumnus who presented the Award did not himself know who the recipient was to be until at the close of the brief explanatory remarks he tore open an envelope containing the name of the recipient. The interest of the pupils and the nervousness of a few of the senior leaders who considered themselves as possible winners was very marked.

In each school the boys of the senior class balloted to show their choice, the five receiving the largest number of votes being nominated and from these the final choice was made by the principal and the faculty.