Alumni Awards Conferred on Three

THE Dartmouth Alumni Council's annual winter dinner in Hanover on January 14 was the occasion for conferring the Council's highest honor, the Dartmouth Alumni Award, on three men whose distinguished careers and long service to the College have made them prominent among all Dartmouth alumni.

In the presence of Trustees, Council members, and representatives of the faculty and administration, Council president Morrison G. Tucker '32 conferred the Alumni Awards upon Edmund Hendershot Booth '18 of Norwich, Vt., Professor of English Emeritus; Roger Conant Wilde '21 of Woodstock, Vt., retired vice president of the Simmons Company; and Charles Frederick Moore Ir. '25 of Orleans, Mass., retired vice president of the Ford Motor Company. The following citations were read:

EDMUND HENDERSHOT BOOTH '18

For the past five decades your orbit of living has been circumscribed within a three-mile radius of the Dartmouth Green. Thereby you have become part and parcel of the corporeal being of your College. From your days as an undergraduate to those of Professor Emeritus your attachments to the College are still unsevered.

From April 1917 to May 1919 you served your country as an officer with the AEF's 88th Division, with front line duty in the Haute Alsace sector.

With your grandfather, two parents (and now a son) in the profession, you were in the tradition when your teaching career started in 1920. Subsequent excursions to Harvard for a Master's degree and further studies at Yale added to your professional status. In 1937 you were co-author of a two-volume work, Earning Our Heritage, which became a standard in the teaching of college English. You are now offering a weekly series of lectures at Canaan College on "World Masterpieces."

To several generations of Dartmouth men you are remembered as a delectable expositor of Shakespeare through your weekly readings in 105 Dartmouth. Your one-man shows, without benefit of costume, lighting or scenery, emulated in quality the stage performances of your erstwhile namesake of the 19th century. You call yourself a ham, and have proved it with appearances as Nanki Poo in The Mikado (1923), as Governor Wentworth on a white horse in the 1919 Sesquicentennial Pageant, and by staging for your fraternity a Christmas play which may have been the precursor of the annual interfraternity play contest. These aberrations have not warped our judgment on your pedagogic abilities.

Your extracurricular interests have included membership in the Corporation of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, chairmanship of the New Hampshire Children's Aid Society, President of PTA in the Hanover Schools, Chairman of the Hanover Unitarian Fellowship, Trustee at St. Mary's in the Mountains, member of the College English Association, and the Shakespeare Association of America.

You were a member of the Dartmouth Athletic Council (1935-1938) and, representing the faculty, were on the Alumni Council from 1958 to 1962.

It is for these accomplishments in behalf of your College that we grant to you at this time the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

ROGER CONANT WILDE '21

Since your graduation from Dartmouth in 1921 your unselfish and voluntary bestowal of infinite hours of endeavor to your alma mater has far surpassed in richness and extent that of most of your contemporaries.

In the world of business you recently completed 30 years of unbroken service to one organization without ever lying down on its principal product. During World War II you were given leave of absence to return to active duty with the Air Force, spending forty-two months in liaison work in training centers, coast to coast - culminating this service with the rank of Major.

In your college class affairs you have been treasurer for seven years (1936-1943), president for five years (1956-1961), and class agent for seven years (1946-1953). For accomplishments in this latter function you received the James B. Reynolds Trophy in 1948. A year later you were elected President of the Class Agents Association. In 1952 you were the first-time winner of a Special Citation for your performance in leading your Green Derby Group for four out of five years, for never achieving less than 90% participation, and in 1951 for increasing total dollar contributions by virtually 100% over the previous year. By only a few dollars did you miss the top dollar figure given to the Fund by any class at any time.

In the wider field of general alumni activity you have been a member of the Alumni Council from 1952 to 1956, officiating for the last year of your term as its President. Simultaneously, you were chairman of the Alumni Fund for 1954 and 1955. During the years 1962-1964 you were chairman of the Alumni Awards Committee.

Upon your retirement you have chosen to locate propinquant to Hanover, so as to be physically and geographically at hand for whatever new assignments await.

For these multiple and diverse contributions which you have made to the welfare and well-being of your College, it is our desire to tender to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

CHARLES FREDERICK MOORE JR. '25

Championship of people and causes has been your lifetime objective. Your apprenticeship for this destiny was served in the fourth estate with three newspapers in Boston and Washington. A three-year stint in a New York public relations firm was the stepping-stone to 12 years with the Ford Motor Company. There, in 1955, you attained a vice-presidency — as far as one may go without being a member of the Ford family.

As aide to princes and kings of the political world your pursuits included those of Executive Assistant to a Governor of Massachusetts, White House consultant to President Eisenhower, master-mind for George Romney in his gubernatorial campaign of 1962, and Deputy Campaign Manager in the presidential candidacy of Nelson Rockefeller.

You have been chairman of the Advisory Council of United and Community Funds, board member of the American Council of Community Chests, and have worked ardently in Chest affairs in Boston, Washington, and Detroit.

In education you are a trustee of the Browne and Nichols School, have been chairman of the Wayland (Mass.) School Committee, and a director of the National Church Society for College Work (Episcopal).

In philanthropy you presented your beautiful Michigan home to Christ Church of Cranbrook, and are now a trustee of the Cranbrook Foundation.

In your capacity as Chairman of the 1963 and 1964 Alumni Fund campaigns you set new Fund records each year, exceeding each year's goal by $125,000 and $129,000 respectively to become the first chairman to raise more than $3 million in a two-year period. Your stewardship of the 50th Anniversary Campaign in 1964 marked an historic accomplishment as the Fund went well over the $1,500,000 level, an achievement which brought you the first "Indian Statue" Award.

You were chairman for the Class of 1925's 40th reunion. You have been a member of the Alumni Council from 1962 to 1965, and in 1964 were elected chairman of the nominating committee.

Now you have returned to the home of your forebears on Cape Cod, and have infixed new political roots by becoming selectman of Orleans.

For these and other unstated accomplishments you are hereby presented with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Honored by the Alumni Council at its dinner in Hanover last month were (left toright) Charles F. Moore Jr. '25, Roger C. Wilde '21 and Prof. Edmund H. Booth '18.