Fund Work Cited

In recognition of his outstanding work among class agents ten years or less out of college, Glenn L. Fitkin Jr. '50 received the 1953 John R. Mason Trophy with the following citation, at the Philadelphia Alumni Fund dinner, March 24:

The John R. Mason Trophy is presented each year to the most outstanding class agent in the youngest ten alumni classes. The Alumni Fund Committee takes unusual pleasure in making this award for 1953 to a man who led his class to a Green Derby victory in its first year of alumni life, and whose continuing leadership has inspired improving records ever since.

His strengths are not the everyday ones of this particular avocation. His accomplishments have been built of unassuming integrity and a disarming directness. A man of few words, he asked for help for the Fund, he asked for money for the College, and he got both. Last year it was $5,000 for 107% of his class quota. The great majority of his class, 486 men to be exact, were with him on the contributor list, a significant clue that another big young class is fast picking up its full share of the load.

The fine performance of this class agent takes on added lustre when one realizes that he was not only concerned with his own class, but every other as well. For the past two campaigns this man went to work on his classmates only after long hours of staff service as Associate in the Hanover office. Although the Mason Trophy is presented in recognition of his work with his class, the Committee is anxious at the same time to acknowledge his magnificent contribution to the success of the 1952 and 1953 Alumni Funds through his efforts in Crosby Hall.

It is, therefore a very special privilege to present this Louis Orr etching to GLENN L. FITKIN, JR., Class of 1950, as a token of the Mason Trophy and the Alumni Fund Committee's deep appreciation of his work for his class and Dartmouth College.