Peter Kiewit '22 Gets Brotherhood Award

The many efforts by Peter Kiewit '22 to move men toward brotherhood were recognized last month in Omaha by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Mr. Kiewit received the Conference's Centennial Brotherhood Award at a banquet attended by a record crowd of 1500 which heard President Dickey, as principal speaker, call for Americans to remain undis- mayed in the face of today's dismaying racial turmoil.

Others who briefly cited Mr. Kiewit for his work for racial and religious understanding were Nebraska Governor Norbert T. Tiemann, who called him "not only an empire builder but a pathfinder"; Nebraska Senator Roman L. Hruska; Omaha's Mayor A. V. Sorensen; Emile L. DuBois, co-chairman of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews; and Dr. Neil B. Danberg, NJJC regional director.

In accepting his award, Mr. Kiewit said, "In spite of what any of us may have done in the past to promote the ideals of brotherhood, we can and must do more in the future. In particular, I want to stress the importance of helping others to help themselves." A notable local example of this con- viction has been his success as co-chairman of a bi-racial committee persuading major Omaha firms to employ several hundred members of minority groups in positions not previously open to them.

Mr. Kiewit, whose name became part of Dartmouth's campus with the dedication last year of the Kiewit Computation Center he and his wife donated, has been described in national publications as "one of the world's greatest builders." He started that career as a water boy for the company founded by his father and, while completing high school, advanced to timekeeper, carpenter's helper and apprentice bricklayer. After his Dartmouth days, he conquered an illness which doctors said would keep him from normal work, and went on to become company president and to build Peter Kiewit Sons' Company into a global operation.

President Dickey, in his Omaha speech, noted this career by repeating the citation Mr. Kiewit received when the College awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1960. The President continued:

"In 1947, tweny years ago almost to the day, the President's Committee on Civil Rights submitted to President Truman the historic report that led this nation into a generation of effort on behalf of the ideals of freedom, justice and equal opportunity for all Americans. The civil rights effort of this period has been an American refounding that will compare historically, I think, with the creation of the American design by the founding fathers and the cleansing of slavery from that design in the fire of the Civil War."

Dartmouth has not been the only institution to benefit from Mr. Kiewit's interest in humanitarian education; he was also honored at the award banquet by the University of Omaha, Creighton University, and the Clarkson School of Nursing.

He is president of the Clarkson Hospital board, a trustee of the Eugene C. Eppley Foundation, the Omaha Industrial Foundation, the Joslyn Liberal Arts Society and the United Presbyterian Foundation; a director of Junior Achievement of Omaha, a regent of Hastings College, and a governor of the Boys Clubs of Omaha.