Truman Metzel '23 Given Bequest Chairman Honors

Named Bequest Chairman of the year at the meeting of class officers in Hanover on May 11 was TrumanT. Metzel '23. The following tribute to his services to Dartmouth was read at the gathering:

Your distinguished career as business executive, officer of the Army Air Corps and consultant to the Air Force Materiel Command in Chicago is a matter of record. Your skilled cartoonist's pen, aircraft pilot's license, Legion of Merit decoration and retired officer's rank of Lieutenant Colonel testify eloquently to your adventurous and good-humored spirit. Since 1948 you have enjoyed a retirement from active business that can only be described as vigorous.

Today, however, we honor you as a son of Dartmouth, a devoted custodian of the traditions of the College on the Hill. Since your graduation you have been a loyal and dedicated alumnus of the College and in the past you have twice been Secretary of your Class and a longtime assistant Alumni Fund agent. Your natural Dartmouth ties became even stronger with the graduation of your son, Truman T. Metzel Jr., in the Class of 1948.

You are also one of our "charter" Class Bequest Chairmen, having assumed this responsibility with the start of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program in 1951. In the past eighteen years this program has produced almost $32,000,000 for Dartmouth and few other men, if any, can claim greater credit for these magnificent results. Your conscientious zeal in promoting the program in your Class, your valued contribution to the significant Bequest Program report to CAPA in 1965, your enthusiastic and persistent advocacy of life income trusts and of greater recognition for the Bequest Program throughout the Dartmouth fellowship, and the constant flow of your thoughtful ideas for improving all aspects of our efforts are only some of the reasons for recognizing your important role in the outstanding program record. Practicing what you preach, you have established no less than four substantial life income trusts of your own.

Now, in recognition of the completion of your meritorious three-year term as Chairman of the Alumni Council Bequest and Estate Planning Committee and your earlier valued service as president of our Association, and in honor of your eighteen years as Bequest Chairman of your Class and a lifetime of devoted effort on Dartmouth's behalf, the Association of Bequest Chairmen is proud to proclaim you as Bequest Chairman of the Year.