DCAC Honors Bill McCarter

WITH the resignation of William H. McCarter '19 as Director of Athletics becoming effective on June 30, the Dartmouth College Athletic Council at its regular meeting in June presented him with a wrist watch and the following citation:

On June 30, 1954, William Hill McCarter will retire as Director of Athletics at Dartmouth. This will bring to a close a term of seventeen years, the longest term of any man in this position at Dartmouth since athletics were organized.

Before he was appointed Director of Athletics, he served fifteen months as Acting Supervisor of Athletics during the illness of Harry Heneage. Since his appointment as Director on January 1, 1937, many notable events have occurred. His revision of the undergraduate managerial organization is probably the outstanding one in the intercollegiate field. He has been one of the guiding forces in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference since its foundation in 1938, and former chairman of its eligibility committee. He has been an outstanding representative on the National Collegiate Athletic Association, being a former vice-president of the New England section and one of the two candidates for president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1953.

With two exceptions the present coaching staff here at Dartmouth has been recruited under his leadership.

Now, WHEREAS William Hill McCarter is resigning as of July 1, 1954 and

WHEREAS, during his term of office, Dartmouth Athletics have played an important but not overshadowing part in the work of the college, and

WHEREAS, now coming to the end of his term as Director of Athletics, we find the exceptionally high esteem and respect in which he is held by the entire personnel of all the athletic departments, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Dartmouth College Athletic Council goes on record in sincerely congratulating William Hill McCarter on work well and effectively done, and further

BE IT RESOLVED that the Dartmouth College Athletic Council wishes him all happiness and success in his new duties for the College.

Tribute was also made by the Athletic Council at the same meeting to Prof. Fletcher Low '15 who resigned as a Council member and member of the Faculty Committee on Athletics after eighteen years of service. It was stated in part: "Through all the changing scene he has stood like the Rock of Gibraltar for an athletic program which met his high standards of clean amateur standing, fair play and good sportsmanship, and strong competitive spirit, yet a program which he insisted should remain always within the limits of academic reasonableness and a conservative budget."

Mr. McCarter, who assumes his new duties as Director of College Publications and Professor of English on July 1, was also the recipient of a certificate of appreciation from the Association of New England Colleges for Conference on Athletics; and of a resolution of tribute from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

In New York City on June 26 Mr. McCarter was guest of honor at a dinner given for him by the present and some of the former directors of athletics of the Ivy League colleges.

William H. McCarter '19 (right center), who relinquished the post of athletic director onJune 30, receives the good wishes of Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, DCAC president. Left isProf. Fletcher Low '15, leaving the Council after 18 years, and right Prof. Bruce Knight,new faculty member of the Council.