What Makes Hogarty Run?
There is a light-hearted seriousness about Dick Hogarty. The quick smile and boyish grin are there but you feel also that he is never far from a comfortable bedrock of purpose.
Dick is not a straight-A man nor is he a mass of undirected muscle, although he is doing well in his Government major, is a campus leader and was captain of this year's cross-country team.
His success in Hanover is understandable: he stayed at Princeton for 18 years before coming to Dartmouth. At Princeton, New Jersey, High School, he was president of the student council in his senior year, captain of the cross-country team, and was chosen Boy Governor of the state.
When it came time to select a college, the Governor was prejudiced against Princeton because his uncle was the head of the campus police force. Dick's interest in Dartmouth had been built in part by attending Dartmouth-Princeton football games - annual events for the Hogarty family. Dick's father, a life-long Princeton fan, didn't realize that there was a Dartmouth man in the clan until one fall he was suddenly confronted with a double problem in loyalty: Dick entered Dartmouth and his brother matriculated at Lafayette.
Dick is president of the Newman Club at Dartmouth. He meets regularly with members at Aquinas House, the new gathering place for Catholic students where a chaplain, assigned by the Bishop of Manchester, resides. The fact that he gives much of his time to religious activity may help to explain the serious side of Hogarty, but what makes him run?
This is a fair question, because, with cross country in the fall and with track in the winter and spring (mile and two-mile), Dick runs most of the year.
A lot of people, he says, think that cross-country runners are a little crazy. This would seem a solid appraisal to many who have seen the tortuous route that Coach Ellie Noyes has set out on the Hanover golf course. Dick has been running it since his freshman year and, of course, knows it by heart. He tells with enthusiasm of the difficulty visiting teams have with the incredible double hill. They run up one hill and think that they are at the top and then face a second and worse incline up to the fairway near the Lyme Road. "There on the flat," Dick explains, "is where we usually get 'em." It is almost the end of the race and a time for the last big push - a place where men on the other team, will either respond to the challenge or break. When Dick is telling about the competition - one man against another there on the flat - both exhausted but both giving what they have - you can understand why he runs.
This June, Dick will be commissioned in the Marine Corps, and then, after two years of service, he hopes to continue his studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration. He knows where he wants to go, and as long as he has someone there on the flat to run against, we know that he will get there.
Dick is an example of what most of us think a Dartmouth man should be and is typical of many men now on the campus. He is a serious student who has included his military service in his plans and will, doubtless, profit from it. He, like more and more men on the campus today, is concerned with spiritual values in his daily life as a student, and he has that rambunctious charm of youth that makes you know that somehow he can accomplish whatever he tries.
Dick has received a scholarship since his freshman year and this investment in Hogarty has paid off very nicely. He has lived up to all expectations and the College can ask no more.
Dick Hogarty '55
