At the annual banquet of Dartmouth class officers in Hanover last month

At the annual banquet of Dartmouth class officers in Hanover last month, a Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest honor conferred by the Dartmouth Alumni Council, was presented to Professor Emeritus Russell R. Larmon '19 (r), president of his class. Wilbur W. Bullen '22 (1), former president of the Council, conferred the award and read the following citation:

For nearly five decades you have been directly and continuously associated with your College. For this one certain fact alone you can, in verity, be deemed a Man of Dartmouth. From the chrysalis of an undergraduate in the College and post-graduate student at Tuck School you emerged as secretary and assistant to President Hopkins. In 1926 you joined the faculty as instructor, and, after becoming full professor very shortly thereafter, taught the Science of Administration for 37 years.

Your collateral activities have, m themselves, constituted a career. In business you have been chairman of the board of Rumford Press, director of the Northern Railroad, the Dartmouth National Bank, and the United Life and Accident Insurance Company. In state government, you were adviser to the Governor of New Hampshire, first assistant in the organization of the state's liquor control system, and a member of the New Hampshire Crime Commission. In Federal affairs you were the State Director of the Office of Price Administration, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, member of the National Heart Council of the Public Health Service for three years — later serving a similar term on the National Advisory Health Council.

Your active memberships have included the American Society for Public Administration, the American Management Association, and the American Association of University Professors.

You have been on the Dartmouth Athletic Council, member of the Executive Committee for the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign, member of the Trustees Planning Subcommittee on Plant Planning, chairman of the second Hopkins Center Committee, Executive Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund (1920-1924), inaugurator and first editor of The Bulletin, Chairman of the Committee on Social Life, member of the Steering Committee of the Capital Gifts Campaign, and President of your Class of 1919 since 1959.

At the start of your tenure with the OPA it was opined by a Nashua publisher that you would probably have to operate under the traditional anathema that all professors are "absent-minded, impractical and dreamy braintrusters." However, at the end of your commission you acquired from a Concord editor the epithets of "deliberate, kindly, orderly, loyal, and quietly courageous." These descriptive qualities would seem to form the substance of the spiritual wealth you have amassed, which, throughout the years you have utilized to make your career a success.

No one can deny your entitlement to honor from your College, and as recognition of this claim we present to you now the Dartmouth Alumni Award.