The Alumni Council's highest honor,
The Alumni Council's highest honor, a Dartmouth Alumni Award, was presented to Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett '10 (r) at the Hanover luncheon meeting of the class officers on May 4. The Council's president, M. Carter Strickland '29 (1), made the presentation with the following citation:
As New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, you achieved greatness in your long teaching career at Dartmouth when your courses in chemistry opened doors of knowledge for thousands of students. Graduating in 1910, you earned the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia, returning to Dartmouth and retiring to your present emeritus position in 1957 after 42 years of dedicated work in Steele Hall.
You have always been a distinguished scholar having written, with Prof. L. B. Richardson, the widely used textbook "General College Chemistry." You have been a leader in faculty affairs as chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy and in other important positions. You contributed to the war effort of this country as Chemistry Chairman of the U. S. Army University in Biarritz, France; and research in plastics has given you distinction in the field of industrial chemistry.
The other side of this coin is your work on Dartmouth alumni affairs. A former member of the Alumni Council, you have also been class agent in 27 Alumni Fund campaigns during which your class of 1910 has contributed a total of $179,970. You have been a long-time adviser to your fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Students have always found your office door open for conferences on chemistry, or anything else.
At the 50th Reunion of your class three years ago you gave one of the finest Fifty-Year Addresses ever delivered at Commencement. . . . Ask any member of the Class of 1910, ask a host of Dartmouth men — they will agree that Andy Scarlett fully merits this Dartmouth Alumni Award.
