Best Class Secretary

The award for the best class secretary of 1948 was bestowed upon Warde Wilkins, secretary for the class of 1913 for the past twenty-five years, at the annual dinner of class and club officers in Hanover on May 15. In making the award, Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, read the following citation:

Some years ago the gentleman now standing before you presided at these weekend meetings of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association. He was our president in I9SI- Then, in 1937, he was elected to the Alumni Council where he served faithfully for six years. In addition he has been secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, has served as class agent, and has been secretary of the class of 1913 for just twenty-five years, since 1923. We talk about all kinds of Dartmouth associations and organizations. At the very center and heart of the far-flung program of Dartmouth activity after men leave Hanover is the class. With a spirit born on Hanover Plain, and with appreciation of the satisfactions to be found among men in the same class group nurtured by the secretary and other officers, Dartmouth counts very heavily upon leaders such as the one whom we honor now.

Day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, and over the years, he is one man who labors constantly and continuously for the class of 1913 and for the College. All honor to his name! If class organization is at the heart of Dartmouth alumni life, it would not be there, and it would not be effective, without the man receiving die Class Secretaries Award for 1948, Warde Wilkins '13.

WARDE WILKINS 'l3