Best Class Secretary

As the outstanding class secretary for the past year, Osmun Skinner '28 of Troy, Pa., recently discharged from the Naval Reserve, received the annual award for this distinction at the June 7 dinner of class officers meeting at the College. His citation was as follows:

Military service on active duty during the war was enough to disrupt the lives of millions of men who found no way to carry on any part of their normal activities. More than one Dartmouth class officer achieved the impossible and continued to handle his work for the College in spite of the overwhelming requirements of service in the Army or Navy. One of these men, and without a peer in the group, is Osmun Skinner. In the face of such disorganizing influences as Naval Indoctrination Schools and shifts of duty from one place to another, he not only carried on as secretary of 1928 but in such a notable way that Charlie Widmayer, editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, cast his vote for this award with the statement that "Os Skinner was the best provider of news and pictures that the MAGAZINE had during the war."

By this time—it is almost twenty years—the business of hard work for Dartmouth, freely and constantly and effectively given in a spirit of utter devotion to the purposes of the College, has become a large part of Os Skinner's life. For years he was top class agent and now for more years he has been a top class secretary, and is a past president of this Association. We are happy to hand a Ticknor Print to Osmun Skinner '28 and to award him Dartmouth's honor of the best class secretary for 1946.

OSMUN SKINNER '28