Alumni Awards

IN the presence of 240 Dartmouth class officers at a luncheon meeting in Hanover on May 11, three of the College's stalwart alumni workers were honored by the Dartmouth Alumni Council with its highest tribute, the Dartmouth Alumni Award. The recipients were Class Secretary Edward B. Redman '06, Head Agent Edward B. Luitweiler '12, and Phillips M. Van Huyck '24, former newsletter editor, secretary, president, and head agent of his class.

J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College and secretary of the Alumni Council, presented the awards with the following citations:

EDWARD BLANCHARD REDMAN '06

"A product of Dr. Tucker's Dartmouth and one of the truest sons the College has ever known." Some time ago President Dickey wrote that in your copy of Dr. Tucker'sDartmouth. Today it could stand alone as the citation for your Alumni Award. But a brief resume of your life's highlights is appropriate.

Your Class was graduated into the shortmoney panic of 1907. Western Electric, however, was not short on the ability to recognize you as a promising young judge of character, capacity and collateral and made you a credit manager in those tight money days. After ten years there and some time with Red Cross and the Hearst papers, you helped establish the first Dartmouth Club of New York. For 22 years as its manager you were the old friend who year after year somehow moved more and more of Hanover and the Dartmouth fellowship to New York and became known affectionately as Mr. Dartmouth. You were an organizer of the Club Managers of the City of New York which recognized your good work in the trade with a citation at a retirement dinner last year. you were a founder of the Dartmouth clubs of New Haven and New Canaan.

In addition to this contribution to Dartmouth men of all classes you have served your Class long and faithfully as its Secretary for twenty years, as Class Agent for fifteen years, and as Bequest Chairman for ten years. In 1956 you were named Secretary of the Year and in the same year you were the Alumni Fund Green Derby winner. Few men have held so many important class offices and done so well in each.

Your extracurricular interests have not been limited to Dartmouth. Following the nation's second trying economic period of your lifetime, you were project supervisor on the WPA development of a five-story factory at the Mott Street School for the production of visual aids, the first of its kind in this country. Two hundred research workers, artists, technicians and metal workers made the models and over six hundred people mass produced these teaching aids in the 35 classrooms which had been turned into shops, laboratories and storerooms. You provided city-bred pupils, most of whom had not seen the things they read about in textbooks, with the ability to translate their lessons into life terms - a real service to the struggling young people of that time. As an officer of your church and Boy Scout Leader you further contributed to the well-being of people, both young and old.

In grateful recognition of your dedication to society and the College, and your continuing devotion to your Class, it is our honor to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

EDWARD BILLINGS LUITWIELER '12

Some time ago your answer to the Date of Retirement question in a class survey was "1985?" You must have believed that you could survive in business only one year under Orwell's 1984 Big Brother.

You have been a Big Brother all your life but not the 1984 type. The hedged lot next to your home became the neighborhood playground because you were always glad to be one of the kids and play ball with them. Many times a youngster would knock on the door and ask Gertrude, "Can Mr. Luitwieler come out and play?"

You have been a devoted husband for more than fifty happy years, a loving father, and now an idolizing grandfather who is a big part of fourteen young lives. As Presi- dent, Treasurer, and now Board Chairman of American Stay Co. - for those who are twice thirty and unfamiliar with the shoe industry, stay manufacturing is not the confining business you might suspect - you have nevertheless benefited mankind through several inventions on which you hold patents. As a corporator and director of a bank and a trust company, as an officer of your church and as an active participant in community affairs, you have been a valued member of society.

While unselfishly contributing to the wellbeing of others you found time to be Secretary of your Class and for over 21 years you have served as Head Agent. Despite a gradually decreasing class membership your efforts have increased consistently the 1912 participation to more than 100% due to your abil- ity to obtain support from widows and relatives of deceased classmates. You took your Class to first place in the Tribal Sweepstakes and for this and the inspired leadership over the years which has made 1912 one of the truly strong Alumni Fund classes you were awarded the James B. Reynolds Trophy as the Outstanding Head Agent for 1958.

In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your loyalty, we are honored to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

PHILLIPS MAYBEE VAN HUYCK '24

"Let no one dare deny that Van has taken over the title of Mr. Dartmouth 1924.... You can hardly name a community activity which he has not supported." Those are the first and last sentences of your biography in the Forty-Year History of the Class of 1924. Nothing more can be said generally and there there is time only for brief references to the specific accomplishments which have earned these opening quotations.

Your class activities prove that only the busy, successful man has time to do another job even better. Five years as Class Newsletter Editor, followed immediately by five years as Class Secretary and then two years as President, prepared you for nine years as Head Agent and your selection as the Outstanding Head Agent of a class more than 25 years out of College with the award of the James B. Reynolds Trophy for 1961. During most of this time you were working on enrollment which included persuading your two sons, who were graduated by the College in 1953 and 1955, and, as a bit of frosting on the Alumni Fund cake, you were elected President of the Class Agents Association.

Your activity in the community has been no less impressive. For more than twenty years you were a member of the Lions Club and sometime its president. You were an enthusiastic worker in the Boy Scout Organization, Council Secretary, and member-at-large. You have been President of the Parent Teachers Association, Chairman of Red Cross campaigns, and on the Budget Committee of the Community Chest.

While doing all these things you became a skilled carpenter, painter and paper hanger - but not for hire - and an expert in color photography. There is little left for you to do in retirement if ever you dare to retire.

For this outstanding service to your College and your community, it is a privilege to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Judge Friendly and President Dickey at areception following the Holmes Lecture.