Embree Gets Alumni Award

In the presence of his fellow Chicago alumni at the club's annual dinner, March 27, J. William Embree Jr. '21 was honored by the Dartmouth Alumni Council with its highest Alumni Award. The Council's president, Carter Strickland '29, made the presentation with the following citation:

A tireless worker for Dartmouth throughout your life, the Alumni Council of the College wishes to bestow its highest honor on you on this occasion of the annual Dartmouth dinner in Chicago. Following graduation from Dartmouth in 1921 you entered the lumber business with Rittenhouse and Embree Company, and have been its president since 1933. Many other business and civic activities, have received the benefit of your talented services as a worker and leader in the Chicago area.

With full deference to your success in the world of affairs, we wish to emphasize the good works that have distinguished your devoted career in Dartmouth affairs. You are a former president of the Alumni Council that you served from 1939 to 1944. You have been president of your Class of 1921 which is one of the most famous and outstanding of all Dartmouth classes. You are a past president of the Chicago Dartmouth Alumni Association; and you have productively worked for the achievement of new facilities and resources in Hanover. You have recently been chairman of your class committee on bequests and estate planning. Your son, John William Embree III, is Dartmouth class of '50.

These are just the highlights, Bill Embree, of your fine work for Dartmouth which fully merits this Alumni Award.