Council Makes Four Awards

THE highest accolade of the Dartmouth Alumni Council - the Dartmouth Alumni Award - was conferred on four graduates of the College during the Commencement and Reunion periods last month.

John B. Stearns '16, Professor of Greek and Latin Emeritus, received his award in the presence of the 50-Year Class at the Commencement Luncheon meeting in the Leverone Field House on June 11. The presentation was by Professor Emeritus Francis L. Childs '06, former member of the Alumni Council.

The other awards - to Sumner D. Kilmarx '22, Leon I. Rothschild '24, and N. Page Worthington '33 - were made at the annual dinner of the Alumni Council in Alumni Hall on June 15. Former Council president James D. Landauer '23 made the presentation to Mr. Kilmarx; Council president Morrison G. Tucker '32 presented the awards to Mr. Roths-child and Mr. Worthington.

Each of the four recipients received a small silver replica of the College's historic Wentworth Bowl and a framed copy of the citation read on the occasion. The four citations follow:

JOHN BARKER STEARNS '16

During your mature life as scholar and pedagogue you have brought zest to impassive but noble subjects in your presentation of the Greek and Latin Classics to four decades of College undergraduates.

After a boyhood spent down east in Maine you have lived for the last forty years within the sound of the bells of Dartmouth. With apprenticeships at Alfred, Yale, and Princeton Universities you returned to Hanover with your doctorate — and to a reputation as a philologist and classicist nonpareil. Starting in 1927 as professor of Greek and Latin, and in 1931 as professor of Art and Archaeology, you were named in 1961 as Daniel Webster Professor of Latin Language and Literature. To quote Dean Jensen, this final honor received "the enthusiastic and affectionate approval of the whole Dartmouth community."

You have done prolonged research on such ancient savants as Catullus, Memmius, Epicurus, and Lucretius, and have visited the scenes of their poetical and philosophical triumphs through extensive pilgrimages to Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. You have studied the excavations of Naples, Pompeii, and Alexandria, climbed the ziggurats of Babylon and Nineveh. With this background you deemed yourself sufficiently versed to be able to talk about the arts of these places with "a reasonably straight face."

You have been associate editor of the Classical Journal, and a member of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of Atlantic States and Delta Sigma Phi. Your articles have been published in the Classical Weekly, ClassicalPhilology, and other periodicals.

You distinguished yourself in World War I as a commissioned officer, attached to the French Army as interpreter. Wounded and gassed in action on the forward line you were awarded the Croix de Guerre. You narrowly missed World War II by being in Dresden on the day Germany invaded Poland, and later left Hungary on the occasion of the declaration of war on Germany by Great Britain and France. You have been active in the American Legion, in which you were granted a Life Membership after serving on the State Americanism Commission of the Legion in the Department of New Hampshire.

Representing the College you have been in great demand as the principal speaker at scores of alumni gatherings, thereby acquiring a universal host of Dartmouth friends in all age groups and in all sections of the country.

In civic affairs you have been moderator for the Town of Hanover; a member of the Hanover Board of Education; President, Vice President, and Trustee of the Howe Library; Clerk of the Hanover Improvement Society; a member of the Town Planning Board; have sat on the local Selective Service Board; and were for a time Director of the Hanover Red Cross Drive.

We wish for you many more years of happiness in your relinquishment of rein which we hold your continued close relationship to your Alma Mater, we now present you with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Hoc est quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. (This one thing is worth all that long service.)

— Catullus

SUMNER DUDLEY KILMARX '22

Native son of Manhattan, and a restless son of its environs ever since, you have described wide orbits in your profession from that point to Paris, Cuba, California and Montreal. In these places, and in between, you have left your hallmark.

From New York Military Academy you entered Dartmouth to become one of its campus leaders. Your "heeling" assignments of sophomore year gained you the ace award of football manager, and later the presidency of Palaeopitus. Your 1921 team was the first to cross the Mason-Dixon line, with games against Tennessee and the University of Georgia. At Athens you found a Georgia peach, Elizabeth - and your subsequent alliance in both marriage and business! has contributed effectively to your happiness and success.

After desultory starts in advertising you became associated with Theodore Hofstatter & Co., interior designers. Aided by your father's tutelage you have since brought this 84-year-old firm to a climactic excellence, without parallel. Since 1951 you have been its president.

At the outset your forte was regal residences such as the Manville estate in Kensington Palace Gardens, London - and two villas in Havana, later confiscated by Castro and turned over to the embassies of China and Russia.

Since 1950 you have shifted from residential work, through a cycle of apartment hotel lobbies, into your finest efforts - the creation of high artistic decor in the interiors of offices of banks, investment houses and law firms. You have contrived to combine the traditional with the contemporary, continually stressing the background and traditions of your clients' institutions. Your more important commissions have been for the U.S. Trust Company of New York, the New England Merchants Bank at Boston, and the Industrial Bank of Providence. To the Dartmouth alumnus you are best known for your collaboration with Paul Sample and Dick Olmsted in the designing of the Hanover Inn cocktail lounge.

You have contributed of your spare time to interviewing committees in the New York area. As a two-term member of the Athletic Council, and its president in 1951, you were instrumental in promoting the selection of Bob Blackman as head varsity football coach.

For your achievements in your unique field of endeavor, and for your efforts in behalf of your Alma Mater, it is only proper that you be accorded the honor of receiving the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

LEON ISRAEL ROTHSCHILD '24

Born in a small Minnesota hamlet, col- lege trained in New England, some strange magnetism drew you to California, where deep roots were developed, and where you have lived abundantly for over four decades. Your boundless affection for your Alma Mater has made it your foremost avocation throughout the years, and has gained you the appellation of Mr. Dartmouth of Southern California.

You have been a special agent in the insurance field since 1924. For twenty consecutive years you have been a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table of the Life Underwriters Association. That fact alone betokens your high standing among the policy writers of America.

In community fund-raising activities you are identified as a consistent participant, and your retort of "who isn't?" verifies your innate modesty. Only from an anonymous source have we learned of your unremitting efforts through 35 years in behalf of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.

For 25 years (1929-1953) you were secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Southern California - excepting one year when you were its president. On April 28, 1953 you were given a surprise ovation by the largest assemblage of alumni ever to attend a West Coast gathering. At that time you were made Honorary Presi- dent of the Association for life, and informed of your selection as a member of the Alumni Council for a four-year term.

Since voluntary retirement as secretary you have been National Enrollment Chairman for Southern California and Arizona, and Area Co-Chairman of the Capital Gifts Campaign. You are continually available to talk about and discuss the aifairs of your Alma Mater, with applicants, parents, secondary school administrators, and alumni. You are the man to whom every new arrival comes for advice and unofficial Dartmouth Placement Bureau.

Within your Class you have been assistant class agent for the Alumni Fund for about twenty years, member of the Executive Committee for four years, and on the Be quest and Estate Planning Committee for the past two years.

Your many friends will surely applaud the wisdom of making you at this time a recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award

NELSON PAGE WORTHINGTON '33

Civic leader, godfather of charities, master hand in public relations, loyal and sturdy son of Dartmouth - you have outvied the busy bee of Sir Isaac Watts by improving each shining hour.

Graduated from College in the depths of the depression, it required only one year for you to break into the field of communications and to join the company with which you have ever since been associated. In that telephone connection you have advanced from District Commercial Manager to General Commercial Manager to Assistant Vice President Public Relations to General Public Relations Manager.

You were involved in nineteen months of active service in the Pacific phase of World War II, as first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, serving with the first aircraft carrier group assigned to the Corps for the purpose of amphibious landings. Your island hoppings included Eniwetok, Guam. Saipan, Okinawa, Yokohama, and Tokyo.

In the civic affairs of Baltimore you have been a member of the Baltimore City Economic Development Commission, Baltimore Convention Bureau, Health and Welfare Council (President 1962-1964), and the Baltimore Youth Commission.

In charities you have affiliations with the Baltimore Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Baltimore Goodwill Industries, and the Y.M.C.A. You are on the executive committee of the Community Chest, and have been chairman of the Heart Fund Campaign for the Maryland Heart Association, You are a member of the Co-ordinating Council of Fund-raising Campaigns.

You are a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Baltimore, the Kiwanis Club of Baltimore (President 1961), the Better Business Bureau, the Advertising Club of Baltimore, and the Mer- chants Club. Other clubs include the Baltimore and Pine Valley Country Clubs, Governors Club, L'Hirondelle Club of Ruxton, Maryland Club, and the Newcomen Society in North America.

For your Alma Mater you were secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Washington for three years, member of the Executive Committee of your Class for nine years, Agent for the Alumni Fund, chairman of the District of Columbia Alumni Council's Committee on Enrollment and Admissions, alumni representative on the Public Relations Advisory Committee, and a member of the National Committee for the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign. A member of the Alumni Council from 1959 to 1964, you have served on the Council's Class Gifts Committee, and were the Council's President in 1963-64

It is for these multifarious acquirements in so many varied fields of pursuit that we are privileged to present to you now the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Prof. John B. Stearns '16 with his emeritus colleague, Francis Lane Childs '06.

Sumner D. Kilmarx '22 (I) receives hisAlumni Award from former Council pres-ident James Landauer '23 of New York.

Leon Rothschild '24 (I) of Los Angeleswith Council president Morrison G.Tucker, who presented the award to him.

Silver bowl given to N. Page Worthington '33 is admired by his wife Marge.