Joe Mathewson '55 Named Class Secretary of the Year

The honor of Class Secretary of the year was conferred on Joseph D. Mathewson '55 at the gathering of class officers in Hanover on May 11. The following citation accompanied the award:

As expected, Joe, a search of Alumni Records confirmed the wisdom of your nomination as Secretary of the Year, for you are a Rufus Choate Scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa member, and a magna cum laude graduate with journalistic competence.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Oldest College Newspaper in America you were awarded the William E. Hall Cup for excellence in journalism. Later you received a James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study as background for journalistic work abroad. Then, after three years in the Navy you became associated with The Wall Street Journal which sent you to Washington to handle the large volume of hot air released daily from Capitol Hill.

In 1966 you were awarded the Howe Prize for Journalism and now CBS, believing that you should be seen as well as read, has you attracting thousands of new feminine viewers to your TV news reports from Chicago.

All this is supplemented by your devotion to the College and your Class. For eight years you have sent to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE tersely cogent notes about a large number of classmates, always prepared in a newsman's interesting style well ahead of copy deadline!

Your record completely justified the honor but in the search for a more complete story some classmates were interviewed. Without exception, each of them first mentioned Marya - Gold Key Smithie, a Dartmouth Carnival Queen and a former secretary of her Class. Even though you might have made it on your own, with Mary's help there were no second thoughts. It is a privilege to designate you Class Secretary of the Year.