Council Honors Four

Two Dartmouth Alumni Awards conferred upon WILLIAM H. SCHERMAN '34 and H. REGINALD BANKART '35 at the banquet of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in Hanover on June 14 were among four such awards made by the Council in the past two months. VICTOR C. SMITH '17 was honored June 10 at the Commencement luncheon, in the presence of the 50-Year Class, and DONALD F. D'ARCY '33 received the Council's highest award at the statewide dinner meeting of New Hampshire alumni in Manchester on May 26.

George I. Davis '2B, president of the Alumni Council, made the three presentations in June. The award to Mr. D'Arcy was made by his classmate John F. Meek '33, Vice President and Treasurer of the College, who attended the Manchester dinner with President Dickey.

Each of the men honored with Alumni Awards received a small replica of the silver Wentworth Bowl and a citation paying tribute to his distinguished service to his community, his profession, and his College. The citations follow:

VICTOR COLLINS SMITH '17

Green Mountain boy from West Topsham, Vermont, you had only a short trip by rail to Hanover for your undergraduate work. This was followed later by the civil engineering degree from Thayer School, the latter having been deferred by a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy.

From that point your life has been spent in Quaker country, where your career was evolved and your reputation established. For fourteen years you were connected with a nationally known manufacturer, advancing to the post of District Sales Manager. At that point you organized your own firm, Victor C. Smith, Inc., and promoted yourself by degrees to the post of chairman of the board.

Since 1927 you have been vigorously active in the Boy Scout movement, receiving both the "Order of Merit" and the coveted Silver Beaver Award, of which you are "very proud." You have been director and treasurer of the Haverford School Board, an active member and lay leader in the Havertown Methodist Church, director of the church building campaign, and a director in the Delaware County Red Cross. Your greatest efforts, however, have been directed in behalf of your alma mater, and these overshadow all other of your extracurricular pursuits. You have been president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Philadelphia, treasurer of your Class for eight years, and president of the Class Treasurers Association. In 1961 you were chosen Class Treasurer of the Year, and the citation received at that time made note of your many attributes such as "a co-operative and conscientious spirit, distaste of routine, remarkable ability to collect money and a devotion to your class and college that gives a warm and shining quality to all that you do so well." You have just completed two terms as regional representative to the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

And so for all these faithful years, serving in the voluntary legion of the alumni in behalf of your alma mater, we are privileged to accord to you. on the occasion of your fiftieth reunion, the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

DONALD FRANCIS D'ARCY '33

Lifelong inhabitant of the Granite State's coastal basin, leading citizen of the historic community of Dover, you are continuing to be an assiduous toiler for your College through activities in behalf of your Class and the whole alumni body.

In politics you served as a member of the Dover City Council for two years. But, in purely civic activities you have found your major role. You were the first president of the Dover Community Chest, chairman of the trustees of the Wentworth-Dover City Hospital, a director of the New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service, a "spark plug" in the formation of the N. H. Citizens' Council for the General Welfare, director of the N. H. Children's Aid Society, and a trustee of New Hampshire's boys town, the Golden Rule Farm, at Tilton.

In search of pursuits for your alma mater, you found your work as memorial fund chairman for your Class "one of the high spots" in your life. By personal contacts through extended travel you saw and visited innumerable classmates. As a result, two-thirds of the living membership of your Class contributed the record breaking gift of $157,000. This inspired a resolution by the Trustees of the College which expressed its "heartfelt gratitude for your splendid leadership and unstinting devotion" in making such a gift possible.

Subsequently, and possibly as a consequence of this effort, you were named to the Alumni Council for the years 1959-1963, serving as chairman of the Council's Committee on Class Gifts, and you were also elected to the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn.

In regional alumni affairs you have been treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of the Seacoast Region, and later, in 1962, were elevated to the post of president.

Your wife, the former Margaret Woodworth, is herself a member of a loyal Dartmouth family whose members include the donors of the Moosilauke Summit Tract and Prospect House, Edward K. Wood- worth '97 and his brother Charles P. '07.

For these many accomplishments in a well-rounded career, for unswerving allegiance to your Class and to Dartmouth, you are most deserving of our most coveted tribute - the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

WILLIAM HARRIS SCHERMAN '34

Promoter extraordinaire, Madison Avenue paragon, fervent alumnus of your college - you just keep going "up" in the judgment of your colleagues and your alma mater.

Operating within the environs of New York City, from mid-Manhattan to Pelham, you progressed through an apprenticeship as advertising agency copywriter to an affiliation with the Time-Life organization. Here, your ultimate high post was General Promotion Manager of Sports Illustrated. In 1963 you changed your allegiance to Newsweek, becoming Vice President and Promotion Director. At that time its Publisher stated - "I consider Bill Scherman the most accomplished promotion man in the magazine industry."

In civic affairs you have found time to be secretary of a District Boy Scout Committee and director of the Pelham Men's Club. You have long performed with a Dixieland jazz combo, slapping the bass on an extensive circuit in the New York metropolitan area. Other hobbies include gardening, golf, and especially the Class of 1934.

In efforts for your college class you were class agent for six years, class president for nine, and have been newsletter editor for the past seventeen. In 1960, for creditable excellence in this post, you were named Newsletter Editor of the Year. A citation given to you at the time listed such attributes as: "tireless enthusiasm, sense of responsibility, sound advice and diplomatic guidance." In the year preceding this accolade you had been honored with the presidency of the Newsletter Editors Association.

You were elected to the Alumni Council in 1962, and have served as chairman of the Council's Public Relations Committee.

For your attainments in the fields of advertising and promotion, for your distinguished labors in behalf of your class and your college, and for the high regard in which you are held by your fellow alumni, it is a dutiful privilege, in recognition of our respect, to bestow upon you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

HENRY REGINALD BANKART '35

Member of a famed Dartmouth family, you can boast a father, brother, two uncles, three cousins, and a nephew who have attended the College during the preceding six decades.

After dabbles in product design, aluminum saucepans, insurance advertising, and a tour of duty in the U. S. Naval Reserve, the lean years of the depression which had plagued many of your classmates finally ended. At that point you hit your stride when you became associated with a nationally known advertising firm as account executive. During this affiliation, which extended for twenty years, you advanced to become senior vice president. A later connection in the same field, with the skme title and responsibilities, brought with it the management of two leading advertising accounts in the business world.

You have given unstintingly of your spare hours to your community and your College. In your suburban neighborhood you have been active in the PTA; worker, captain, and member of the Board of Directors in the Community Chest; Chairman of a Boy Scout Troop Committee; a member of the School Board Advisory Committee, which won approval for a 3 million dollar bond issue; and a Director of the Scarsdale Red Cross.

Your assignments and responsibilities in Dartmouth activities are imposing and impressive. You have been class secretary for ten years, class chairman for five, President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York for a two-year term, Director of the Dartmouth Club of Westchester, class newsletter editor for twelve years, member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, Chairman of the Alumni Council Committee on Class Gifts, member of the Advisory Board of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and in 1960 you were named Class Chairman of the Year. To repeat the punch line of a popular song - "Who could ask for anything more?"

Faced with all this evidence of your dedication to the College, none could overlook you for the high honor and distinction of the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Victor C. Smith '17 (I) receives awardfrom Council president George Davis '28.

Donald F. D'Arcy '33 (r) with his classmate, Vice President and Treasurer JohnF. Meek, who made the award on May 26.

William H. Scherman '34 (I), getting hisAlumni Award bowl at the Council dinner.

H. Reginald Bankart '35 (I), similarlyhonored, with Council president Davis.