For his performance as the outstanding Head Agent of a class 25 to 40 years out of college in last year's Alumni Fund campaign, Laurence G. Leavitt '25 received the James B. Reynolds Trophy at the class officers' meeting in Hanover last month and was cited as follows by Fund Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. '28:
The "Great Class of 1925" certainly deserves a "Great" Head Agent and over the past five years in this capacity you have completely demonstrated your right to such a title. During this period your class of 1925's annual gifts to the Alumni Fund have increased from $22,000 to the record-shattering $58,479 produced last year - a five year total of $217,000 raised for Dartmouth through the Alumni Fund. Moreover, the Class of 1925 captured three Green Derby victories while also, in four out of five campaigns, taking the Davis Trophy as the class with the largest dollar total in the annual Fund. Under your leadership 1925's Century Club membership has continued to build and continued to lead all classes in this category with over 150 members last year. Your well-organized and skillfully directed Class Agents is have been an example to all classes. You have also served as President of our Class Agents Association with distinction. Helping in these accomplishments, we realize, was your charming wife, Dorothy, whose keen interest in and assistance to your programs and whose poetic talents have been an inspiration to all. Surely the Fund Committee is privileged and very proud to acclaim you as the outstanding Head Agent of a class twenty-five to forty years out of College in the 1964 50th Anniversary Campaign by presenting you and your "Great Class of 1925" with the James B. Reynolds Trophy.