In recognition of his distinguished

In recognition of his distinguished medical career and long years of service to the College, Herbert S. Talbot '25 (r) received the Alumni Council's Dartmouth Alumni Award at the annual gathering of class officers in Hanover last month. The presentation was made by alumni awards chairman Roger C. Wilde '21, who read the following citation:

As a member of Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate at Dartmouth, Class of 25, you went through medical school here and then to the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. After engaging in private medical practice in New York and New Jersey you became especially interested in veterans' affairs and have since 1948 been Chief of the Paraplegia Service at Cushing Veterans Hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts. You are a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. You have served as Chief of the Professional Staff, and Chief of Urology at three large V.A. Hospitals - McGuire in Richmond, Cushing in Framingham, and also West Roxbury.

A very model of a class secretary, you worked with a small group consisting of Ford Whelden, the late Jack "Davis, and others who have succeeded in making the Class of 1925 one of the strongest groups in the entire Dartmouth alumni body. You served as president of the association of class secretaries, and as a member of the Alumni Council. For the past 12 years you have edited your class newsletter with outstanding distinction in your own writing and in the response of classmates. Four years ago you were president of the Dartmouth Association of Class Newsletter Editors. Your son, Geoffrey, is a member of the Class of 1954.

A recognized world authority on Urology and Paraplegia, no more dramatic illustration could be given of your desire to help your fellow men than your enlistment in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1941 - before the United States entered the war - and your" rise to the rank of Major during four years of war service.

We are proud of your professional career and we are delighted to recognize your unending and outstanding work for the College with this Dartmouth Alumni Award.