Scholars Saluted
PRESIDENT DICKEY presided over a May 19 banquet at which well-deserved acclaim was bestowed upon 115 of the College's top honors students. The banquet replaced the annual Honors Convocation of recent years and is part of a general effort to give increased campuswide recognition to men of outstanding scholastic achievement. Another part of this program is a current display in the main corridor of Baker Library featuring pictures of many of the ranking students and a listing of their honors.
The principal address at the banquet was given by Prof. Henry S. Commager of Amherst College. His audience included Rufus Choate Scholars, members of Phi Beta Kappa, holders of graduate fellowships for the coming year, and winners of two new prizes, the Ray W. Smith Trophy and the Marcus Heiman Awards, both presented for the first time at the dinner. The Dartmouth referred to those invited to the honors banquet as "men who have taken most seriously the business for which we all come to Dartmouth College."
The Marcus Heiman Awards, given to four students for their work in the creative arts, were bestowed upon Richard Baldwin '60, Torrington, Conn., poetry; John S. Edwards '58, Waterbury, Vt., dramatics; Marc Abrahams, Yonkers, N. Y., dramatics; and James Herbert '60, Wickford, R. I., painting.
One of the really unique prizes now given to a Dartmouth undergraduate is the ancient Greek amphora, first awarded to a Greek youth about 490 B.C. in the Panathenaic Games (see page 24 for an article about it). Named for Ray W. Smith '18, who presented the vase to the College, the trophy went to Richard N. Hoehn '59 of Hanover, son of Dartmouth's tennis and squash coach. Three other seniors from New Hampshire who received honorable mention were Samuel S. Adams, Lincoln; David R. Gavitt, Peterborough, and Richard W. Taylor, Laconia.
Thirteen of the seniors at the dinner were men who just a few days before had been announced as winners of Dartmouth General Fellowships for 1959-60. The recipients are:
Gilroye A. Griffin '59, Columbia, S. C., to study education at Harvard.
John S. Edwards '58, Waterbury, Vt., play directing at Yale Drama School.
Walter J. Peterson '59, Needham, Mass., education at Harvard.
Howard R. Greenberg '59, New Haven, Conn., Yale Law School.
Duane D. Conover '59, El Segundo, Calif., Latin American studies at the University of California.
Alan W. Hurlbut '59, Millers Falls, Mass., economics at M.I.T.
Harvey Galper '59, Haverhill, Mass., economics at Yale.
Philip C. Schmitter '58, Kensington, Md., international relations at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland.
Frederick E. Lockyear '59, Portland, Ore., American history at Chicago.
Michael K. Spingler '59, Dedham, Mass., French literature at Johns Hopkins.
Ronald F. Kehoe '59, Medford, Mass., Harvard Law School.
Thomas R. Lennox '59, Collingdale, Pa., modern history at Johns Hopkins or Chicago.
Harry W. Gooch '59, Duluth, Minn., architecture at Yale.
In addition, three recent graduates were also awarded fellowships:
Paul T. Brockelman '57, Islington, Mass., philosophy of religion at Harvard.
Herbert Schneidau '57, New Orleans, La., English literature at Princeton.
Thomas G. Mapp '58, Boulder, Colo., oil painting at the University of Colorado.
