Sherman Adams '20 has been chosen to

Sherman Adams '20 has been chosen to deliver the Fifty-Year Address at his Class's reunion in June. During the last five years he has devoted much of his time to the development of the Loon Mountain skiing and all-season recreation area in Lincoln, N. H., where he is president of the corporation. But the former Governor of New Hampshire (1949-53) has recently emerged from political retirement to serve on the Executive Committee of the New Hampshire Citizens Task Force, charged with modernizing the state government. Early this year, in recognition of his present and past contributions to the country "North of Boston," he was awarded the first Robert Frost-Contemporary American Award by the Plymouth State College Alumni Association.

Before his election as governor in 1948, Adams had been a member of the N. H. House of Representatives, 1941-44, serving as Speaker for the last year, and a U.S. Congressman, 1945-47. One of Eisenhower's earliest supporters, he played a prominent role in the election of 1952 and then served as chief assistant to the President, 1953-58.

Willing to share his governmental experience, he has lectured on his role as presidential assistant to students in special seminar courses at the College of Wooster, the University of New Hampshire, and Dartmouth. He has also written a book on the Eisenhower Administration entitled "Firsthand Report," published in 1961. His personal papers chronicling his entire political year have been donated to Dartmouth's Baker Library.

Governor Adams has been the recipient of eight honorary degrees including an LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1953.