Best Club Secretary

Your Dartmouth work, Dick Litchfield, is on the record.

Your Class Newsletter quoted you on 6 June, 1946, as saying: "I'm a faithful attendant at all the Dartmouth- Wellesley meetings - working with the boys to get out the members, etc." In March of 1947, your Class Secretary reported in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE as follows: "Dick Litchfield has been elected President of the Charles River Dartmouth Club. It is an active gang!" It was just that, Dick, and your leadership has helped to make it more so.

After 1947 your Class Secretary and Newsletter Editor have let the record speak for itself. They have not needed to remind your class (1922) that following a second term as President in 1948, you were elected to the key post of Secretary of the Charles River Dartmouth Club, which office you have held ever since.

We just wish, Dick, that more of your club members could be here to help us celebrate your tenth anniversary as their Secretary, for we have good reasons (one for each year) for selecting you Club Secretary of the Year.

1. You keep records and mailing lists up to date, sending address changes promptly to Hanover. This, we say, is not easy.

2. You have always assisted your Club President and other committee chairmen in club projects. Your experience here means much.

3. You carefully plan every meeting for a smooth and enjoyable program. This, as we all know, makes the difference.

4. You always keep younger alumni in mind securing their participation in club activities - one reason for the vigor of your organization.

5. You keep the Secretary's Office informed of your activities and attend the annual meeting for club officers in Hanover. And we appreciate this!

6. You send news of your club to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. And the editors list you as one of the best.

7. You assist the enrollment program by keeping an eye out for top boys in your schools - activity that means so much to the College.

8. You are an enthusiast and do not get easily discouraged. This means everything to a club.

9. You handle your Dartmouth job in business-like fashion - promptly, efficiently, and thoroughly.

10. You now join others, Dick, in a select group of alumni who have faithfully served the College in a key position for over a decade. Little wonder that you have been chosen Club Secretary of the Year.

Richard C. Litchfield '22, secretary of the Charles River (Mass.) Dartmouth Club, was honored as Club Secretary of the Year at the September 26 dinner of club presidents and secretaries in Hanover. The following citation was read on that occasion: