Alumni Awards

DURING the Commencement and Reunion periods last month the Dartmouth Alumni Council presented its cherished Alumni Award to three graduates of the College who have attained distinction in their careers and who have given long and devoted service to Dartmouth.

The award to Warde Wilkins '13 was made in the presence of the 50-Year Class, of which he is Secretary, and hundreds of others at the Commencement Dinner held in the Leverone Field House on June 15. Awards to Sidney J. Flanigan '23 and Donald C. McKinlay '37 were made at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Alumni Council in Hanover on June 19. All three presentations were made by Council president M. Carter Strickland '29, who gave each recipient a small silver replica of the Wentworth Bowl and a framed copy of the citation read to him. The citations follow:

WARDE WELKINS '13

Your list of Dartmouth activities and service is long and varied. After graduation you became Class Agent for the Alumni Fund and also Secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Boston, and later President of the Dartmouth Club of Newton, Mass. You served on the Alumni Council of the College for six years and have been President of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association among other important jobs for the College.

After World War I Army service you entered business and became an officer of the New England Fire Insurance Exchange - a position you held until retirement in 1961. Civic, community, and church activities in Boston and Newton have been other aspects of your career.

But, among everything else, the life-time service that you have given to your Class of 1913 in the key position of Secretary stands like a beacon to guide the activities of alumni workers for the College. For the first ten years after graduation you were Acting Secretary of your Class, and for the past 40 years you have been the full-fledged Secretary. You have been editor of your class newsletter for the past 13 years.

Every single man in the Class that today observes its 50th anniversary of graduation has interested you, and every member of his family. You have brought to your large class group of men, women, and children a warmth and depth of feeling about each other, and about Dartmouth, that earns you our praise, our appreciation, and fully entitles you to this Alumni Award.

SIDNEY JOSEPH FLANIGAN '23

Although we must observe the proprieties and attach your full and formal name to this presentation, it seems more natural and fitting to hail you as "Irish" Flanigan '23!

Your career at Dartmouth made you one of the most popular and respected members of your Class - the popularity attested by your election as Mayor of Hanover in senior year; and the respect initiated as a student and strengthened now by 40 years of your deep and personal interest in every man in your Class and your many services to the College.

In business you have been a successful insurance broker, a partner for many years in your own firm, and now vice-president of Frank B. Hall and Co. of New York City. Although your career in lower Manhattan has kept you busy enough, you have always found time to give to Dartmouth — as a member and President of the Alumni Council, as Secretary of the Dartmouth Club of New York, as President of your Class of '23, as a member of the Trustee Planning Committee on Alumni Relations, as co-founder and devoted worker for Aquinas House, the center for Catholic students at Dartmouth, and as long-time editor of your Class newsletter Skiddoo.

But no summary of these things is adequate. It is too much like a list on a piece of paper. It does not say that Dartmouth is written on the heart of Irish Flanigan, just as he is close to the hearts of thousands of Dartmouth men.

DONALD CARL MCKINLAY '37

Following graduation from Dartmouth in 1937 you secured a law degree at the University of Chicago, practiced as an attorney, then entered the U.S. Navy on Pacific duty, afterward settling in Denver with the law firm of Holme, Roberts, More and Owen. You have been active in civic and political affairs in Denver, but duties and distance have never prevented you from putting Dartmouth high on the list of things to be done every day.

You are the founder of the National Enrollment Program of the College. Starting with a thorough and effective plan in Colorado, you brought this to the Alumni Council during your membership from 1953 to 1956 with a resulting organization that includes close to 2000 alumni throughout the entire country. Although gifted with powers of leadership among men, you have never hesitated to be a worker — as you like to put it yourself: "Dartmouth needs Indians as well as Chiefs!"

Vice-President of the Alumni Council, you also served as a member of two Trustee Planning Committees — on Alumni Relations and on Admission and Financial Aid. Secretary of your Class of '37 following graduation, you have encouraged development of serious programs for alumni at class reunions, and you successfully instituted a program of lectures and discussions for your Class at its 25th reunion last June.

Winner of the Barrett Cup in your senior year, you have clearly won this replica of the historic Wentworth Bowl that we present to you with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Warde Wilkins '13 (r) holding the citation read to him by Carter Strickland '29.

Award winners Donald C. McKinlay '37 (l) and Sidney J. Flanigan '23 with PresidentEmeritus Hopkins, guest of honor at the Alumni Council's 50th anniversary dinner.