Alumni Awards Conferred
THE annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston on February 8 was the occasion for presenting the Dartmouth Alumni Council's highest award to two distinguished graduates of the College. Harvey P. Hood '18 of Boston, retired Trustee, and Herbert H. Harwood '26 of Brookline, Mass., former New York Central Railroad official, both of whom have given long years of service to Dartmouth, were recipients of the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
The presentations were made by Wilbur W. Bullen '22 of Boston, chairman of the Alumni Council's Committee on Alumni Awards, who read the following citations:
HARVEY PERLEY HOOD '18
Among the blessings Dartmouth has counted more fervently than most institutions has been the support of her alumni. Only occasionally, however, does a man come along whose entire life sums up the ideal of Dartmouth service so that it truly may be said the College would not have been the same without him. So reads the tribute to Harvey Hood in a resolution of the Trustees of Dartmouth College at the time of his retirement from the Board.
You, Harvey, began to serve the College as an undergraduate. A classmate said that you were on The Dartmouth board "before the rest of us knew we were in college." You heeled and scribbled your way to the job of editor and at the same time you raked, rolled, and watered so proficiently that you became assistant manager of varsity baseball in your junior year and manager of varsity football as a senior. You were elected president of the Senior Class and of Palaeopitus and, as the member of the graduating class who "gives the greatest promise of becoming a factor in the outside world," Dartmouth awarded you the Barrett Cup.
Your undergraduate career was unlike a brilliant meteor, soon to burn out and be relegated to the record books. Rather it went into orbit and gathered brilliance year by year. While a third-generation chief executive of New England's largest dairy products business, you became a director of a bank, a railroad, of industries and public utilities, a trustee in education and of hospitals, and an enthusiastic sponsor of underprivileged boys and social agencies in general.
Although busy in these diverse activities, you were, as President Dickey said, "a major servant of the College for the past quarter century." As a member of the Alumni Council, as Chairman of the 1941 and 1942 Alumni Fund Committees when you made $200,000 grow where $100,000 grew before and boosted the level of Fund giving to a high never before reached or even aimed at, as the first Chairman of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School, and as a 25-year member of the Board of Trustees of the College - the first Chairman of the Trustees Planning Committee from 1954 to 1961, and for the past eleven years the senior Trustee and Chairman of the Executive Committee - you have shown devotion to Dartmouth in almost every area of service.
In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty, vigorous leadership, and wise counsel, it is appropriate at this 104th meeting of the Boston Alumni Association, of which you are a past president, that we give to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
HERBERT HAWLEY HARWOOD '26
Hub Harwood, few men have traveled and labored so widely through our country and the world. Fewer have served the College and their Classes so long and faithfully in responsible positions. For these services to your country, your company, and the College, we salute you.
Some men can equal the number of assignments you had during 34 years with the New York Central Railroad, but none can match the places. On important jobs, you have represented this great railroad system in New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Boston, a sort of a Where's Wherein America. For the last eleven years you were the executive representative of Central's president in Boston, concerned with public relations and the system's many and complex problems in the Northeast.
Your most spectacular assignments came during World War II when you accompanied President Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, and General Eisenhower on their many "secure" trips. You were the pilot extraordinary of a Kiwi Sacred Cow.
Between 1938 and 1945, the Harwood 20th Century 50-mph Limited made nearly 150 shuttles between Washington and Hyde Park with FDR aboard, and one of your most treasured souvenirs of those trips is a copy of The Roosevelt 1 Knew, inscribed by the author, Labor Secretary Frances E. Perkins: "How many times you have been responsible for the life and safety and comfort of this beloved American." Another cherished possession is Sir Winston Churchill's photograph and letter of appreciation for your "trouble" in arranging a secret trip to Hyde Park.
Since your retirement two years ago you have continued to give unstintingly of your time and wisdom as a board member of church, educational, social service, civic, and charitable organizations for which they are grateful. Emerson College awarded you an honorary Doctor of Laws degree last June.
During your busy life you have set aside time for Dartmouth and your Class. You were President of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D. C. As Class President for four years, Secretary for six years, Newsletter Editor since 1966, and as a long-time Assistant Class Agent, you have earned the true affection of your classmates and the abiding gratitude of the College. In 1957 you were named Class Secretary of the Year and in 1965 you were elected President of the Class Presidents Association.
Hub, you have done outstanding work in everything you have undertaken. In grateful recognition, it is our honor to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
Wilbur W. Bullen '22 (r), chairman ofthe Alumni Awards Committee, presenting awards to Harvey P. Hood 18 (top)and Herbert H. Harwood '26 at Boston.
