Roger Whittemore Brown ’05

Hard work, a keen mind and patience accounted for your transformation from farmer-merchant to a very successful ware-houseman and heavy-duty trucker in spite of Mr. Hoffa. Restless energy, an ever-inquiring intellect, and impatience with social progress account for your unsuccessful progress toward retirement, which you said you were beginning in 1955 at the time of your Fiftieth Reunion. You claim to be semiretired now but it is the most active semiretirement on record. Demi-retired or “retireling” might be more accurate but the most descriptive sobriquet is “The Unsinkable Roger Brown.”

With more trucks than cows in your dairy herd of fifty years ago, you deliver heavy building materials day and night to hospitals, schools, bridges, and factories under construction in New England. Without your help, Governor Volpe could not have built Hopkins Center. Many of your extensive real estate holdings are rented to very large commercial garage concerns. You provide the roof over thousands of cars parked in the Boston area, so through transportation and real estate you touch indirectly the lives of countless New Eng- land people.

Born in early 1883 in Concord where, with good detection equipment during your quiet crib time you might have listened to echoes of the shot heard ’round the world, you grew up in the Minuteman tradition and are a Son of the American Revolution. You are a bank director, a corporator of a savings bank, and a.director of the Chamber of Commerce. Your family, church and the College are your great life interests.

You have served your Class as Newsletter Editor and you were chairman of your 65th Reunion. For many years you have been Class Treasurer and Head Agent, and in 1965 you won the Old Timers Green Derby. Few doubt vour ability to win an Old Timers 880-Yard Derby if it were run today. On your frequent wanderings around the College you see extracurricular things which need doing and willingly take the respon- sibility for getting these done. The restora- tion of the Earl of Dartmouth portrait in 105 Dartmouth and an acoustical ceiling in the DOC House are examples for which the College is grateful. Among both old and young you are known as the Dean of Participants in the Dartmouth Alumni Col- lege which you, as the senior member, have attended each year since it began in 1964.

With lasting appreciation of these achieve- ments and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty and service, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

At the opening banquet of the 1970 Dartmouth Alumni College on August 16, Roger W. Brown ’O5 (1) received the Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest honor bestowed by the Dartmouth Alumni Coun- cil. The presentation, with the following citation, was made by Maj. Gen. Walter I. Miller ’22 (Ret.), secretary of the Alumni College Association.