Alumni Award

The Dartmouth Alumni Council's highest honor, the Dartmouth Alumni Award, was presented to Edgar R. Oppenheim '39 at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma, in Oklahoma City, on March 24. Morrison G. Tucker '32, former president of the Council, made the presentation, with the following citation:

EDGAR ROY OPPENHEIM '39

You have the doubtful distinction of being the only active alumnus who has never sent in a completed Alumni Directory questionnaire. The College always provided a postage-paid, return envelope, so lack of stamp money is not an excuse. Perhaps a reason might be found in your answer to a College officer who said he came to Oklahoma to bring a message from Hanover to the hinterland. You replied, "In Oklahoma, we call Hanover the hinterland." So, for the facts on your life we had to go to Oklahoma and there found that, for Dartmouth, you would Sooner work than write. After a brief search it was clear that you had no time to write the Alumni Records Office. Over the years you had been too busy with enrollment, as a two-term president and a longtime secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Western Oklahoma, as a successful class agent, as a member of the major gifts and local executive committee of the Third Century Fund, and of the Alumni Council. Few can equal your record of service and accomplishment for the College.

Following a short time with the Federal Home Loan Bank you joined the Army and for your outstanding services in North Africa and Italy you were awarded the Legion of Merit. While president of your own investment banking firm you occupied high offices in the Investment Bankers Association and in the Society for the Advancement of Management. You have served your community as financing manager for the Oklahoma Turnpike System and as fiscal adviser for the Airport, Parking, Water and Industries Authorities, and as director of two banks and a life insurance company, all in addition to your work in real estate and housing development.

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.