E. L. Barcella '34 Named Class Secretary of Year

At the annual meeting of Dartmouth class officers held in Hanover, May 13, Ernest L.Barcella '34 was proclaimed Class Secretary of the Year. In presenting the award J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College, read the following citation:

The excellence of your work as Class Secretary suggests that your job as Chief of General Motors' Washington listening post is performed when time can be spared from your Class duties. If GM ever objects, you could remind them that what's good for Dartmouth is good for General Motors.

Your Dartmouth education was a four-year leave of absence from newspapering during which you prepared in George Gitsis' culinary department for your role at the Nixon-Khru-shchev Kitchen Debate. That is but one of the many very important events you have covered around the world which is Nader here nor there now that you are keeping your finger on Capitol Hill's pulse for General Motors and reporting promptly the current economic, legislative and regulatory trends.

Your classmates have come to expect the same kind of professional reports on who's doing what, when, and where, the glad news and sometimes the sad news, but always timely news, tastefully written. There are no missed deadlines.

You have given much to Dartmouth, including a son, Ernest Jr., Class of 1967. For all your superior work and the spirit in which you do it, we are honored to recognize you as Class Secretary of the Year.