A feature of the annual Boston alumni

A feature of the annual Boston alumni dinner on February 11 was the presentation of a Dartmouth Alumni Award to DoaneArnold '27 (1). Alumni Council President William H. Timbers '37 made the award, with the following citation:

GEORGE DOANE ARNOLD '27

Raconteur, thespian, a wartime apprentice seaman with admiral aspirations who found the "row" up too long and rough so he settled for Maine cruises as mate and cook on his college roommate's schooner, a proficient golfer after having his left elbow frozen in a place that insured perfect swings, a Knute Rockne lookalike, glib as a smiling Irishman, but as English as the Rock of Gibraltar and twice as solid - that is Dartmouth's Doane Arnold.

You began to serve the College and your Class while an undergraduate as manager of swimming, president of The Players and class secretary. You were a member of Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet and Delta Omicron Gamma, watch DOG of the campus "lest the old traditions fail." Since those days you have worked zealously in the best interests of the College.

You continued to be class secretary until 1952 and while on that job you were secretary and president of the Boston Alumni Association and a member of the Alumni Council. In 1958 you were local chairman for special gifts in the Capital Campaign. One of your special gifts to the College is young Doane '71, ready to carry on the Dartmouth-Arnold tradition.

Following a short insurance selling experience you came to the home office of New England Mutual as an underwriter and advanced through the chairs and over the desks, always piled so high with applications that you never knew what the tops looked like, until 1964 when you were made a Vice President. None should infer that you then swept the desk clean and stopped work. Far from it. You began to see your field offices, to represent the company at important insurance meetings, and served as vice president and president of Home Office Life Underwriters Association.

When you were home you gave much of your time and wisdom as a member of the corporation of Hahneman Hospital of Boston, trustee and treasurer of the Charles Meserve Scholarship Fund, director of the Tiger Oil Corporation, and took an active interest in many community enterprises.

With abiding appreciation for faithfully serving the College and your Class for almost half a century, we are honored to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.