HONORED BY COUNCIL

At the dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada, held in San Francisco on April 9, Ritchie C.Smith '26 of San Francisco was honored with the Dartmouth Alumni Award by the Alumni Council. Guy P. Wallick '21, former president of the Council, made the presentation and read the following citation:

You have always led an active and full life, in College and in the years since graduation in 1926. A native of San Francisco, you returned to California in 1927 to begin a publishing career with Ginn & Company. For nearly 16 years you spread the gospel of educational materials, traveling far and wide through the western states.

World War II interrupted this career, but as a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy Reserve you worked patriotically in Washington on Bureau of Aeronautics publications. You once said that this break from business gave you a welcome chance to re-evaluate your life. The result was - after the War - you became co-owner and senior partner in the San Francisco City Transfer and Storage Company, a position you have filled for nearly 20 years. Your firm, it is said, can move anything, possibly even both Mohammed and the mountain.

You have plotted your life with the objective of giving as much as possible of your time and energy to civic affairs and other good works including Dartmouth College. You are a Trustee of the Orinda School Board, Director of the Salvation Army, and Director of the YMCA.

The son of Selden C. Smith, Dartmouth '97, who was one of the founding members of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, and brother of David P. Smith '35, a present member of the Council, you have served your College in many ways. From 1939 to 1941 you were president of the Northern California Alumni Association. You represented the West Coast from 1958 to 1962 on the Alumni Council. For decades now, you have been a wheelhorse worker for Dartmouth and for your Class of 1926.

We are delighted to honor you for all-around achievement, as a lover of the outdoors, and above all for your enthusiastic and devoted service to Dartmouth. We salute you, Ritchie Smith, with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.