Treasurer of Year

At the annual dinner of class and club officers in Hanover, May 7, Arthur H. Ruggles Jr. '37 was named Class Treasurer of the Year and was given this tribute:

Arthur Hiler Ruggles Jr. '37, except for three years out for military service, you have been on the job as treasurer of your class ever since graduation. This is your fifteenth active and successful year in a position that has become vitally important in every class as the ALUMNI MAGAZINE class group subscription plan has developed into one of the solid foundations of the whole Dartmouth alumni program. The Magazine's circulation record this year of 21,300 alumni copies going to 96% of all graduates and 86% of all alumni is the result of hard work and understanding support from the class treasurers, among whom you are outstanding. The 99% of all 1937 men now receiving the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is a mark below which the class has never fallen by more than a hair for seven consecutive years. Such full coverage can be sustained only by an effective job of collecting class dues, and this year your record of dues payments by 60% of the entire class is exceeded by just one class in all the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties.

One could hardly claim novelty in linking the name Ruggles with service to Dartmouth. Your father, Arthur Hiler Ruggles, Class of 1902, was a Trustee of the College from 1936 to 1946 and is now Trustee Emeritus. Your grandfather, Edward Rush Ruggles, Class of 1859, was a distinguished member of the College faculty for 33 years. And in earlier years, your great-grandfather, Daniel Blaisdell, Class of 1827, was Treasurer of Dartmouth College for forty years, from 1835 to 1875. Your own constant concern for the welfare of Dartmouth College, which we suspect takes a variety of forms at Deerfield Academy, your presidency of the Dartmouth Treasurers Association in 1951-52, and your many years of productive work for 1937 and the College are a modern-day continuation of the service rendered Dartmouth by your forebears for the past 120 years.

But, strictly speaking, it is not so much for these softer genealogical considerations as it is for your accomplishment in matters of hard cash that we express our gratitude to you and salute you as Dartmouth Class Treasurer of 1955.

ARTHUR H. RUGGLES JR. '37