SPECIFICATIONS for the Dartmouth Cup presented each year by the Dartmouth Club of Plainfield, are as follows.
1. The cup shall be awarded by a committee of five (5) male members of the faculty, appointed by the Principal. This committee to include the Principal, the Director of Athletitcs and three other male members of the faculty who are most likely to come in contact with seniors.
2. The award will be based on the record of the senior year only, unless two or more contestants are of about equal merit, when the record of previous years shall be considered.
3. The characteristics to be considered are scholarship, athletic participation and personal qualifications.
4. The Director of Athletics shall report to the committee, at least three weeks before the close of school in June, the names and averages in scholarship and athletics of the five members of the graduating class who stand highest.
6. No student whose average scholarship rank is below "C" shall be considered eligible.
7. Personal qualifications to be considered are leadership, social mindedness, reliability, manliness and loyalty to the best interests of the school.
8. The student, who in the opinion of the committee ranks highest in athletics, scholarship and character, shall be publicly presented with the cup.
9. If at anytime the committee votes that there is no suitable candidate the cup will not be given that year. No award was made the past year.
Richard Hetfield, the last of the present generation of Hetfields, is in the freshman class. In sending four out of four, the Judge has started a dynasty. Following the family tradition, Walter 111 '29 started with a son, as did Frank Blatz '31. The father of the Schuldenfrei boys wants to be right up there with Judge Hetfield, two boys, two Dartmouth graduates. Speaking of multiple contributions, there's Ted and Frank O'Brien and the Robbie boys. George F. Hetfield '31 joined the benedicts this summer.