Top Club Secretary

At the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association in Hanover last month, Dick Loewenthal '53, secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago (shown with his wife Audrey), received the commendation of the Association as Club Secretary of the Year. Following is the citation read at the annual dinner:

Last year was such an outstanding one for Dartmouth's third largest and fourth oldest alumni club that it seemed worth a thorough study to determine just how it all happened. The study, now concluded, has revealed what all of us have come to know: namely, when an alumnus gets that old Dartmouth religion and happens to be in the right place at the right time the results are remarkable. Richard J. Loewenthal Jr. (who, incidentally, learned a bit about organization in 1953 as Director of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival) assumed his Secretarial duties in February 1961, and since that time 1100 Dartmouth men living in Chicago and vicinity have come to learn that Dick knows exactly who they are, what they do, when they pay their dues, and how come weren't they at the last meeting?

When a club is conducting luncheon and dinner programs, picnics and smokers, enrollment and scholarship activities, and publishing directories and newsletters, it takes a lot of doing. We salute the Chicago Alumni Association and its young Secretary for bringing new strength to the College, and hereby declare Dick Loewenthal to be Club Secretary of the Year.