Top Club Secretary

At the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association in Hanover last month, Russ Dilks '51, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia (as well as of the Class of 1951), received the commendation of the Association as Club Secretary of the Year. Following is the citation read at the annual dinner:

Since 1956 you have been keeping the records and handling the business for over 500 alumni living within the jurisdiction of the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia. We doubt that your job has been any easier for the brotherly love that is dispensed in your city; nor do we think the fact that you were a Scoutmaster for five years, achieved Phi Beta Kappa standing at Dartmouth, and hold a law degree from Yale has made it any easier to track down addresses, collect dues, post notices, and plan a program of club activities ranging from picnics for applicants to cocktails in the Egyptian Room of the University of Pennsylvania Museum!

However, it is typical of your organizational ability that all arrangements for alumni and Egyptians at the post-Penn game festivities tomorrow are completed, leaving you nothing better to do than journey our way to play your always able part in these meetings.

For five years of superlative club secretaryship we salute you, with hopes that the Class of 1951, which caught up with your talents and named you Class Secretary in June, will not consume all your Dartmouth time. After all, 500 Dartmouth men are enough of a job - add 700 more and we say impossible, except for the likes of the Club Secretary of the Year.