Alumni Awards
THREE Dartmouth Alumni Awards, recognizing distinguished careers and loyal service to the College, were presented by the Dartmouth Alumni Council during the Commencement and Reunion periods last month.
Martin J. Remsen '14 of Hartford, Vt., received his award in the presence of the 50-Year Class at the program following the Commencement Luncheon in the Leverone Field House on June 13.
Windsor C. Batchelder '19 of Darien, Conn., and Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28 of Denver, Colo., were honored at the annual dinner .of the Alumni Council in Thayer Hall on June 17.
Council president N. Page Worthing-ton '33 made all three awards, presenting each man with a small silver replica of the Wentworth Bowl and a framed citation which he read. The citations follow:
MARTIN JOHNSON REMSEN '14
After 21 years as an attorney in New York, a partner in Bernard, Remsen, Milham and Bowdish, you turned 180 degrees in your career to become a dairy farmer in Etna, New Hampshire. Retirement from professional life, however, has made you hardly less busy than you were in Wall Street.
Here in Hanover you have served as a Trustee of the Hitchcock Hospital, as a member of the Town Finance Committee, as a member of the Town Planning Board and of the Zoning Board, and as a leader in the Ford Sayre Memorial Program to encourage and teach skiing among children of the Hanover area.
If there is any job you have not done for your cherished Class of 1914, we don't know what it is. You have served as president of the class, as agent for the Alumni Fund, as chairman of your Class Memorial Fund, as reunion chairman, and at the present time you are bequest chairman and editor of your class newsletter. You are an outstanding example of a man who makes room in his life for the important activity of service to the College.
We are confident that all members of your Class of 1914 who are here on the campus this weekend observing the 50th reunion-anniversary of graduation join with us in honoring you with this Dartmouth Alumni Award.
WINDSOR CHARLES BATCHELDER '19
Your career in business has been outstanding. Starting after graduation from Dartmouth in 1919, you worked with the Winchester Arms Company in New Haven, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City, and then for 35 years with the National Credit Office in New York, holding all positions up the line to president, retiring in 1957. But even now your energy and talents permit no leisure in a new association with the Wellman Operating Corporation in New York.
Darien, Connecticut, well knows your public-spirited services in welfare work, education, church, town government, Community Council, and as Director for three years of the Darien United Fund.
Dartmouth College has shared on a daily basis in your productive and busy life. You served as secretary of the Class of 1919 for five years, as president of the Dartmouth Club of New York for two years, as a member of the Alumni Council of the College, as president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Connecticut, which in 1962 named you its "Dartmouth Man of the Year," and now you are editor of your class newsletter. We would like to testify that in all these assignments for the College you not only have been exceedingly active in the past, but you are continuing with full vigor now and into the future.
Along with Dartmouth, the New England Society in the City of New York, which you have served as secretary and president for many years, keeps you close to these granite hills of New Hampshire - and so does your family with two Dartmouth sons, David '51 and John '55, and your daughter Nancy married to William A. Bridge, Dartmouth '51.
We are delighted because of your varied, distinctive, and continuing achievements to present you with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
RALPH LEYMAN RICKENBAUGH '28
Colorado has raised some mighty men of Dartmouth, and you are one. In business affairs you have long been the head man for the Cadillac Division of General Motors in the Rocky Mountain region. This may explain why the Dartmouth ski team when it travels west for championship ski meets is often met by a fleet of Cadillacs!
Well known in Denver as a leader in civic affairs, you have served as a director of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, of the Denver Better Business Bureau, and of the Denver United Fund Campaign. Your son, Kent, came east for his schooling and is a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1959.
As a leader in activities of the Dartmouth Alumni Council you became its president four years ago and made a special contribution to the work of the Council through gional activities. You were also regional chairman for Colorado in the Capital Gifts Campaign of the College; and you have taken your turn as secretary and later as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Great Divide, centered in Denver.
It is a special pleasure to your former colleagues on the Alumni Council to present you with this Dartmouth Alumni Award.
Martin J. Remsen '14 (r) receiving hisAlumni Award at Commencement luncheon in the Leverone Field House.
Windsor C. Batchelder '19 (I) and RalphL. Rickenbaugh '28 with the silver bowlsreceived at the Alumni Council dinner.
