Top Newsletter Editor

H. Lyman Armes '12 (left) was the first winner of the new annual award to the Class Newsletter Editor of the Year, presented at the Hanover dinner of alumni class officers on May 3. With him is Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, who made the award and read the following citation:

H. Lyman Armes '12, for ten years now your efforts have made the 1912 BILLBOARD outstanding among all class newsletters. The familiar green and black BILLBOARD heading has reached your 1912 classmates around the world almost every month. The history of your class, of its members and their families, and all class activities have been recorded in your BILLBOARD pages in a prose style distinguished by wit, dexterous turn of phrase and accurate reporting.

Where else could one find Basil O'Connor '12, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, referred to as "America's most magnificent pickpocket," or this 1955 classic birthday greeting to all class members - "Cheer up, another birthday should be no cause to fret, we may not be spring chickens, but the moths ain't got us yet!"

Your year-round issues have been assembled with a keen nose for news, a discerning eye for selections of jottings and poetry, and an editorial acumen which turns even the most prosaic doings into high, adventure. Your "Bulging mailbag" contains notes, letters and reports from seemingly every man, woman, and child in the 1912 family. Class participation in all alumni activities has been actively promoted through your columns. The 1912 BILLBOARD is in every possible way an enduring bond between the members of your class and the College.

For the truly superlative work you have done in writing the 1912 BILLBOARD and for your service to your strong class and to Dartmouth, we honor you tonight, presenting - for the first time - the Dartmouth Class Newsletter Award for 1957. We hope that for many years to come the ringing "G-night and G'luck - Lyme Armes" will continue to sign off each issue of the 1912 BILLBOARD.