Alumni Award Conferred on Charles W. Bartlett '27

As one of the highlights of the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Greater Boston, held at the Harvard Club in Boston on February 13, a Dartmouth Alumni Award was conferred upon Charles W. Bartlett '27 by the Dartmouth Alumni Council. The award was made by Wilbur W. Bullen '22, former Council president and chairman of the Awards Committee, who read this citation:

Every thirty years since the Civil War a direct descendant of your grandfather, General Charles W. Bartlett of the Class of 1869, has been graduated from the College. Your grandson Thomas, Class of 1981 projected, is heir apparent to the rare distinction of becoming a fifth generation Dartmouth man. Charlie, although you are only a third generation Bartlett at the College, we' honor you tonight and proudly mark the beginning of the Bartlett Second Century at Dartmouth another century of Bartlett students and another century of Bartlett service to the College, without which, in the past one hundred years, Dartmouth would not have been the same.

Before being graduated you began serving the College as President of Palaeopitus, manager of football, and member of Green Key and the boards of Jack-o-Lantern and The Dartmouth. With understandable foresight Dartmouth awarded you the Barrett Cup and you have spent the last forty years confirming the wisdom of that decision. As a member of the Alumni Council, President of the Boston Alumni Association, Chairman of the Trustees Planning Subcommittee on Athletics, Chairman of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council, and Overseer of the Hanover Inn you have devoted countless hours of service to the College and helped prepare the way for Dartmouth to enter upon her Third Century with increased vigor and strength.

You earned the respect of your colleagues as an outstanding trial and admiralty lawyer and twice they elected you president of the Boston Bar Association. You have been a United States attorney, a special assistant to the United States Attorney General, and a long-time member of the Massachusetts Judicial Council. Your grandfather was in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment in 1864, your father was with the 7th Division, American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and in World War II you joined the Navy to see the world. As a Commander you saw only the sea—the Pacific which was terrific and the Atlantic which was so romantic that you continued sailing over the bounding main and became an authority on the winds, waters and rocks off the coasts of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Labrador. As the editor of Cruising Guides for these areas, which you publish for neither profit nor tenure, you get a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction.

While prominent in your profession and avocation, you became a director-trustee of banks, a railroad, a newspaper, a shoe manufacturing company, a hospital, and health and welfare agencies, and you have discharged more than your share of civic responsibilities.

In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty and wise counsel, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Charles W. Bartlett '27 (l) with WilburW. Bullen '22, who presented the award.