Best Class Treasurer

This year for the first time an award for the best class treasurer, similar to that for the best class secretary and best club secretary of the year, was made at the dinner of class officers in Thayer Hall on June 7. Its first recipient was Donald L. Barr '18, assistant treasurer of the College and former president of the Class Treasurers Association, whose citation was as follows:

When the Group Subscription Plan for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was first advanced ten years ago to establish a regular line of communication among the alumni, and between the College and its far-flung thousands of Dartmouth men, there was no one more helpful or more eager to assist in this vital project than the treasurer of the Class of 1918, Donald L. Barr. He immediately raised the sights of his class in respect to increased participation in payment of nominal dues. The records he has achieved in every subsequent year has been highly successful and is an excellent example to all other class treasurers as to what can be done in building a strong class financial situation, with complete circulation for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

During this period of emergence of class treasurers as among Dartmouth's most important alumni officers, Don Barr has maintained an exceptionally close liasion with his own class officers. This formidable team of four has set a model of effective coordination. When 1918's class agent, Dick Holton, was busily breaking records in Alumni Fund campaigns, his confrere, Dave Garratt, also set a $20,000 record for a 25th reunion gift, and Ernie Earley's columns in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE make Walter Winchell envious. Meanwhile Don Barr kept all these things tied together and moving along without conflict and with great advantage to the class and to the College.

More recently, and in spite of illness, he has served as acting secretary of the Treasurers Association of which he was the first president in 1941. We are happy to give Don Barr this Ticknor Print and Dartmouth's award of the best class treasurer for 1946.

DONALD L. BARR '18