Council Honors Nickum

At the annual Dartmouth alumni dinner in Seattle, Wash., on March 23, the Dartmouth Alumni Council paid its highest honor to George C. Nickum '31 with its Alumni Award. On behalf of the Council, Donald C. McKinlay '37 of Denver made the award and read this citation:

At the opening of Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College last fall, you mentioned to a friend, "Yesterday morning I was in Honolulu, last night in San Francisco, tonight in Hanover." In tribute to your distinguished career in professional and business life, we pay admiring homage to you as president of W.C. Nickum & Sons, naval architects, whose ship designs for government and private use have earned fame for you - a tireless traveler to ports on all oceans from your home base in Seattle, Washington. Likewise in civic affairs, with the Episcopal Church, and in community activities, your busy life is generously shared with noble endeavors.

For Dartmouth you have never failed to answer a call. As a former president of the Alumni Council of the College and the Dartmouth Club of Western Washington, as a leading member of the Trustee Planning Committee on Alumni Relations, as one outstanding among thousands whose devotion to Dartmouth continues unabated through the years, you are truly both a worker and a leader in alumni affairs of this College. Like the late Sam Barnes '07, who was for so long a pioneer leader for Dartmouth in Seattle, you back up younger alumni workers with full-hearted support, but so modestly as to conceal from others — but not from us — the breadth and depth of your good work for the College.

We are grateful to you, George Nickum, and are delighted to present you with this Alumni Award.