At the dinner meeting of the Alumni

At the dinner meeting of the Alumni Council in Hanover on January 29, Laurence Gillelan Leavitt '25 was honored with a Dartmouth Alumni Award. James D. Landauer '23, president of the Alumni Council, made the presentation and read the following citation:

You continued your graduate education after Dartmouth at Columbia with a Master of Arts degree, and then began a long and distinguished career in secondary education, first as a teacher at Tabor Academy. In 1934 you became headmaster of Vermont Academy at Saxtons River, Vermont, serving as a leader among all private school headmasters for 25 years until retirement to your present home in nearby Norwich in 1959.

During your administration at Vermont Academy, a total of 170 of your boys came to Dartmouth.

As an undergraduate you were the stalwart fullback on the varsity football team for three years and winner of the Barrett Cup, highest undergraduate honor, in senior year. Throughout your career as a schoolman you kept in close touch with Hanover and served as a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Ties with Dartmouth have always been strong – through two alumni brothers, through your wife Dorothy, whose father E. K. Hall of the Class of 1892 was one of the great Dartmouth men of all time; and other family connections.

You have worked tirelessly as Head Class Agent for the Class of '25, whose achievements on many projects for the welfare of the College have been unsurpassed. You have collected nearly $218,000 for the Alumni Fund in the past five years. Under your leadership the Class of 1925 has won the Davis Cup four times for contributing the largest money total in those annual fund campaigns.

We are delighted, Larry Leavitt, to bestow upon you our highest honor - the Dartmouth Alumni Award.