First Cox Prize
IN memory of the late Sidney Cox, well-loved Professor of English at Dartmouth for 24 years, a group of sixteen competing undergraduates gathered one evening last month in Mrs. Cox's home to watch Budd Schulberg '36 award one of them the Sidney Cox Memorial Prize for creative writing. The $100 award was presented to Richard M. Rogin '54 of New York City for his entry, Three TimesAround, a trio of short stories describing the paths of different kinds of people toward a "bella" - a truly happy moment. The informal ceremony recalled the weekly occasions when Professor Cox's students gathered at his home for talk, coffee and brownies. That these sessions subsequently played an important role in the development of writers and lovers of writing is shown by the committee which has devoted its efforts to the establishment of the 12500 fund to make possible the annual prize of $100. In addition to the poet Robert Frost, Budd Schulberg and four members of the English Department, members are John Kelleher '39, author and Professor of Irish Culture at Harvard; Jerry Tallmer '42, former editorial writer for The Nation; A. B. Guthrie, author of The Big Sky and former student of Sidney Cox at the University of Montana; Samuel French Morse '36, Professor of English at Trinity College; William Bronk '38; and Thomson Littlefield '41, Professor of English at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rogin, who won the first annual prize to be awarded in memory of Professor Cox, has served as editor of Quarterly, the student literary magazine, and recently received a James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study.
