Seventeen Alumni Given Awards

SEVENTEEN of Dartmouth's most distinguished graduates were honored with Alumni Awards at a ceremony, September 6, which was one of the highlights of the Convocation on Great Issues in the Anglo-Canadian-American Community. The evening assembly in the flagdecked west wing of Alumni Gymnasium was the occasion for an address by Sherman Adams '20, Assistant to President Eisenhower and one of the Dartmouth alumni honored.

President Dickey, presiding at the ceremony, asked the forbearance of the Convocation audience while the College conducted a "family affair," and then turned the meeting over to Guy P. Wallick. '21 of San Francisco, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. In his brief remarks Mr. Wallick said, "This year the Council Committee on Alumni Awards felt that this Convocation would be an appropriate occasion to honor a number of alumni who have been distinguished in their careers and have demonstrated faith and devotion to the College by loyal and distinguished service to the purpose for which it stands. The seventeen graduates of the College who are to receive the award this evening all qualify according to these criteria and were all nominated by the 28,000-man alumni body."

To each recipient Mr. Wallick read a citation and presented a small replica of the silver Wheelock Bowl, which dates from 1771 and is one of the prized possessions of the College. Those honored were:

CHANNING HARRIS COX "01, Boston, Mass. Former Governor of Massachusetts

ROBERT FRENCH LEAVENS '01, Berkeley, Calif.

Minister, Educator and Writer (Awarded in absentia)

THURLOW MARSHALL GORDON '06, New York, N. Y. Lawyer

GEORGE HENRY HOWARD '07, New York Lawyer

JOHN HOLMES HINMAN '08, New York President, The International Paper Co.

LAURIS GOIDSMITH TREADWAY '08, Williamstown, Mass.

Founder of Treadway Inns

BASIL O'CONNOR '12, New York, N. Y.

President, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

SOMERVILLE PINKNEY TUCK '13, Paris, France

Former U. S. Ambassador to Egypt ELLSWORTH BREWER BUCK '14, Staten Island, N. Y.

Chairman, The L. A. Dreyfus Company

SIGURD STANTON LARMON '14, New York President, Young and Rubicam, Inc.

FLETCHER REED ANDREWS '16, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Dean of the Law School, Western Reserve University

ROSWELL FOSTER MAGILL '16, New York Lawyer; Former Under Secretary of the Treasury

WILLARD STEWART PAUL '16, Gettysburg, Pa.

President, Gettysburg College

WALTMAN WALTERS '17, Rochester, Minn. Surgeon, The Mayo Clinic

SHERMAN ADAMS '20, Washington, D. C.

Assistant to the President of the United States

ELLIS ORMSEEE BRIGGS '21, New York U. S. Ambassador to Brazil

JOHN CRAWFORD WOODHOUSE 'gi, Wilmington, Del.

Chemist, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company

Space does not permit the printing of the Alumni Award citations in this issue, but it is planned to present them in full in the respective class columns of the recipients next month.

Portions of Mr. Adams' address, which dealt with the need of strong, continuing unity among Great Britain, Canada and the United States, will be found in the Convocation Supplement in this issue.

Between the conferring of Alumni Awards and the delivery of Mr. Adams' speech, which was carried over national radio networks, greetings were delivered from Oxford University by Prof. Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College, and from the-colleges and universities of Canada by Dr. Sidney E. Smith, president of the University of Toronto, both of whom were Convocation panelists.

Professor Goodhart concluded: "I think there is much to be said for a return to the medieval ideal of placing the government of the world in the hands of educated men. The problems we are faced with today are more difficult and more serious than they have ever been in the past, and they demand for their solution the greatest efforts of all those who have had the advantage of university training. It is therefore of peculiar importance that in the United States, which is now the most powerful nation in the world, the universities should be prepared to play a leading part in studying the great issues with which we are faced. For this reason and for the reason of friendship I bring to you Oxford's fraternal greetings."

President Dickey opening the Alumni Awards Program. Seated (l to r) are Guy P. Wallick '21, Alumni Council president; S. Pmkney Tuck 13, John C. Woodhouse ,21 Basil O'Connor ,12 Ellis O. Briggs 'si, W. Stewart Paul '16, and John H. Holmes 08, among those honored.

Thurlow M. Gordon '06 (left) and Channing H. Cox '01, two of the award winners, shown chatting at the ceremony during Convocation.

Sherman Adams '20 delivering his address following the alumni awards.

The singing of "Men of Dartmouth" closed the program. Left to right are Ellsworth 15. Buck '14, S. Pinkney Turk '13, Basil O'Connor '12, President Dickey, Lauris G. Treadway '08, Ellis O. Briggs '21, Sherman Adams '20, Dr. Waltman Walters '17, John H. Holmes '08, George H. Howard '07 and Roswell Magill '16.