Secretary of the Year

Coggy Broer '27 received the accolade of Class Secretary of the Year at the May 13 dinner of Dartmouth class officers in Hanover. His citation follows:

To cite Coggy Broer as class secretary of the year might seem to indicate that being a model secretary is his only claim to fame as a dedicated alumnus and worker for the College. On the contrary, Coggy had scarcely got back home to Toledo with his diploma, when he started a long and distinguished career devoted to service to Dartmouth, as president of the Dartmouth Club of Toledo, and later as its secretary, with a subsequent long record of club activity.

I He was made class agent in 1948, and served for three years, and is now an assistant agent for the class of '27. In 1953 Coggy was elected to the Alumni Council and became chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Class Organization. Under his chairmanship the Dartmouth ClassOfficers Manual, the envy of our colleagues around the country, was prepared. He is the father of class organization as we know it today.

With this background, small wonder that when he became secretary of his class in 1952 we got what we expected - one of the best class secretaries. A past president of the Class Secretaries Association, he presided over the May meetings of this group with finesse and sympathetic understanding of the problems which beset all secretaries. A joy to the editors of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, he gets his copy in on time. His sympathetic contacts with families of deceased classmates makes them, in turn, loyal members of the Dartmouth family.

Himself an expert on gems, we consider Coggy Broer a gem among secretaries, and are happy to honor him as the Class Secretary of the Year.