The Dartmouth Alumni Council's

The Dartmouth Alumni Council's highest honor was conferred on Nathan K. Parker '26 of Pittsburgh at a dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania on February 1. Coach Bob Blackman presented the Dartmouth Alumni Award for the Council and read the following citation:

NATHAN KUHNS PARKER '26

Figures normally enliven all brokers and investment bankers but to you, Nate, the numbers 14-14 have been very depressing. These were showing on the big board in New Haven as the high and close after the most spirited sixty-minute, green-blue trading session ever experienced in that oval "pit" up to October 1924. Twenty-five years later you told Pat Livingston of the Pittsburgh Press that this was the most disappointing day of your life. Even though it was eleven years later before Dartmouth closed higher than Yale, your leadership the following year as captain of the 1925 National Champions erased those 14-14 figures from the minds of Dartmouth men everywhere and earned for you their abiding respect and admiration.

As an undergraduate you were a scholarathlete and clearly a leader among your classmates. They elected you class marshal and president of the senior class and as the member of the graduating class who "gives the greatest promise of becoming a factor in the outside world" they awarded you the Barrett Cup. In one of the most severe competitions since the scholarship fund was established in 1902, you were chosen a Rhodes Scholar and received a degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University. You were elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key and Casque and Gauntlet.

In addition to professional, business and community activities as governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Association of Stock Exchange Firms, and Investment Bankers Association, director of corporations, president of your town council and member of your town water authority, treasurer of your church, and president of the Optimist Club, you continued to serve the College as a member for five years of the Alumni Council and for six years of the Athletic Council, as President of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania, and on the Medical School and Third Century Fund campaigns.

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