Alumni Awards Given in Boston
THE annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston on February 2 was the occasion for presenting the Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest honor of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, to two graduates of the College who have had distinguished careers in the publishing and legal fields in Boston and who have also given long and loyal service to the College. These awards, to Daniel B. Ruggles Jr. '21 and George B. Redding '29, were presented by Council Secretary J. Michael McGean '49, who read the following citations:
DANIEL BLAISDELL RUGGLES JR. '21
Offspring of a family that has been immersed in Dartmouth tradition for more than eleven decades, you have carried the torch forward, and passed it along to the generation which follows.
Although you stated in your Personal Report on the occasion of your 25th Reunion that your "life has been normal, simple and not too eventful," this statement has since been thoroughly refuted.
Your career has been devoted to the field of advertising, through the media of two famed Boston newspapers. For sixteen years you were national advertising manager of the Boston Herald, followed by five years as advertising director for the merged Herald-Traveler. You resigned from this post to devote full time to your own company, the United Display Corporation, of which you are now the principal stockholder.
Your secondary, but not unimportant interests have included a directorship in the Salem Y.M.C.A., trustee of the North Shore Children's Hospital, trustee of the Wildey Savings Bank of Boston, and memberships in Rotary International and the American Legion. During World War II you were assistant director of the New England Division of the War Advertising Council.
Activities in affairs of your alma mater have been most pronounced: President of your Class (1931-1936); President of the North Shore Alumni Association for one term, and later President of the Boston Alumni Association; Newsletter Editor of the 1921 SMOKER for the past ten years; and, in 1962, President of the Newsletter Editors Association. You have also served as an elected member of the Alumni Council for District I for two terms (1958-1962). For three years you were on the Advisory Board of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
For these faithful and continuous contributions looking to the well-being and strength of your College, it is appropriate and a privilege to grant to you the honor of receiving your alma mater's Alumni Award.
GEORGE BARNUM REDDING '29
Since undergraduate days your gaze has been focused on a legal career, which you have followed successfully for thirty-three years. Known in your community as a pubuc-spirited citizen, you have also ensured a niche in Dartmouth's Hall of Fame by unstinting devotion to alumni activities.
You claim choosing your profession because of a desire to be "an escapist from hard labor." But this was just a passing thought of an undergraduate spending a summer on Nantucket Island as a plumber's "helper, and later packing lumber up Mount Lafayette for the Appalachian Mountain Club.
With two years at Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from Boston University you hung up your shingle in 1933. After side excursions with Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire as research secretary, and a three-year stint with the U.S. Navy during World War II, you were affiliated with a Boston legal firm for seven years. You have been in private practice since 1953, and are recognized as a specialist in the field of conveyancing.
In your home town of Winchester you have given unstintingly of your time as member and chairman of its Finance Committee, the Board of Selectmen and the Planning Board.
In your alumni efforts you have been on the Special Gifts Committee of the Greater Boston Alumni Association, Class Agent, President of the Dartmouth Club of Boston (1955-1956), Class Secretary for six years, a member of the Trustees Planning Subcommittee on Alumni Relations, and the Alumni Council.
For these multitudinous activities to which you have given so much in behalf of your profession, your community, your Class, and your College, we now give you much deserved recognition by naming you recipient of the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
PROCEDURE FOR OTHER NOMINATIONS
Following is the section of the Alumni Association constitution providing for Trustee nominations other than those put forward by the Alumni Council in behalf of the alumni:
"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of Alumni Trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote, an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of Trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for Alumni Trustees.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for Trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of Trustee."
Daniel B. Ruggles '21 (r) receiving hisAlumni Award from J. Michael McGean'49, Secretary of the Council.
George B. Redding '29 (r), lawyer andalumni leader, receiving his award.
