Club President of the Year

At the annual meeting of the Dartmouth Club Officers Association in Hanover last month, Dick Page '54, president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, received the award as Club President of the Year. Following is the citation read at the annual dinner:

As an undergraduate you became famous as a non-believer in miracles, for you played the role of that hard-to-convince psychiatrist Dr. Lyman Sanderson in Warner Bentley's better than Broadway production of Harvey. But now you know that miraculous things happen, especially when other Dartmouth men are involved, for you have led a fine club to its finest year of activities, with a promise, in writing, of even greater things to follow. You may just need that pooka to pull it off.

The 1963-64 Annual Report of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, carefully prepared by your full-time Secretary, Dick Watson '59, lists the following accomplishments: A freshman send-off luncheon ... a 40% return of dues ... an evening Football Smoker with Coach Blackman ... first award of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford Scholarship ... monthly luncheons featuring local speakers and visits from five College officers ... an evening showing of the 1963 Football Highlights film ... a "hugely successful Cinerama" presentation ... a dinner meeting with President Dickey ... an enrollment luncheon for principals and guidance officers to meet President Dickey and hear Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. ... the annual Rugby match against Yale ... enrollment of outstanding, boys in the class of '68 ... and finally, a new work program for Dartmouth students seeking summer jobs - this just to round out the slow months when some guys, but not you, like to relax.

We know you haven't done all this unaided, Dick, and thus our Award as Club President of the Year salutes your assistants in the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. Of course, we leave it to you to express our appreciation to that damn rabbit.