Alumni Awards

THE Dartmouth Alumni Council in April and May presented Dartmouth Alumni Awards to four graduates for notable service to the College and their communities. Each man was given a silver miniature of the Wentworth Bowl and a framed citation. At the May Class Officers meeting in Hanover, an Alumni Award was conferred on Richard W. Lippman '42 by Wilbur W. Bullen '22, chairman of the Alumni Council Awards Committee, who read the following citation:

RICHARD WINSTON LIPPMAN '42

Communication has been your life. It began when you were Communications Officer with the famed 11th Bomb Group which won the South Pacific for us and five battle stars for you, despite your admitted needle-eyeful knowhow about radio. It has continued for a quarter century in the advertising and printing business and has not been offset by any interests other than Dartmouth and your family. This now includes Harry, the hobo-mannered champion airedale who, rumor says, you are training to bum his way to Hanover where he will find many communicants at his own level.

You have communicants at all levels Communications Unlimited. There -is no generation gap. You are at home with secondary school boys, college seniors and also the twice-thirty alumni. Among the school boys of Pennsylvania you are the best known college enroller. Among Dartmouth students you are the perennial sophomore who understandably and without a break talks to them in their language from dinner through breakfast. The alumni generally and your classmates particularly recognize your great store of knowledge about many phases of the College which you communicate clearly to them.

For twelve years your informative and witty material in the newsletter bound the class together and led to your selection in 1965 as Newsletter Editor of the Year and your election as vice president and president of the Newsletter Editors Association. The Class is indebted to you for the 25-Year Book in 1967 and the two earlier class directories. In 1949 you became a Class Agent and in 1955 you received the Harvey Hood Trophy as the outstanding Head Agent for a Class 11 to 25 years out of College. You served on the local executive committees of both the 1957 Capital Gifts Campaign and the Third Century Fund. In 1967 you were given a special Class Award and elected its President.

For almost twenty years you have been active in the Enrollment Program of the College and since 1965 you have been its District Director in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Ten years ago you were president of the Philadelphia Club and for ten years you have been its newsletter editor. This spring you were elected to membership on the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

Few of the many loyal and devoted alumni have labored so continuously and so fervently for the College, and in grateful recognition of this outstanding service we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

On April 16 at the Class of 1929 dinner in New York City, M. Carter Strickland '29, former president of the Alumni Council, conferred an Alumni Award on his classmate, Jack D. Gunther, with the following citation:

JACK DISBROW GUNTHER '29

Perhaps as a Son of the American Revolution your interests in guns and ammunition began at the bridge in Concord with the shot heard 'round the world. There is no evidence that you still are trying to find the musket from which it was fired, but through your law school thesis and a subsequent book, you have made important legal and scientific contributions to the identification of firearms from ammunition fired therein, pointing out the erroneous testimony of ballistics experts upon which the prosecution based its contention of murder in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. Soon after the book's publication you went with Hercules Powder Company but it is not clear if that was for personal protection or more technical information. Neither is it known if continuing research was the reason for your move to Air Reduction and a home in New Canaan where you rent the air with frequent family trapshooting exercises in the dangerous proximity of your living room window. The neighbors accepted this noisy fun with more than reasonable grace and only some occasional reservations when they were trying to nap on a Sunday afternoon in the otherwise peaceful Connecticut countryside. One thing is certain, however. You have always done your thing with a bang and for this we honor you tonight.

After several years in law practice you advanced toward legal perfection as a general counsel and later a general officer of your companies. In addition, you discharged important responsibilities as a director of two corporations. None would expect a former lacrosse player to be happy in quiet retirement so all understood your subsequent move to where the action is, to a company doing business under the name of that old revolutionary, Roger Williams.

Your service to the social community has been as significant as your service to the business community. You were governor and secretary of your Country School, a long-time fund raiser on the Community Chest, Committee Chairman of the Red Cross, and you are still chairman, president and governor of three Connecticut conservation committees and trusts.

You have found time in your busy life to be Chairman of the Class Bequest Program and of the Class Memorial Fund for more than twenty years and a member of the Corporations Committee for the Medical School Campaign. You have been president of east coast alumni organizations from Connecticut to Delaware - the New Canaan Club, the Dartmouth Club and Alumni Association of New York, and the Wilmington Association.

The College is grateful for the leadership of men like you in commerce, public service and in Dartmouth affairs as the Nation and the College enter their third century together. We are honored to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Also on April 16, at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago, Robert C. Borwell '25 was presented an Alumni Award by Robert T. Mortimer '47, vice president of the Alumni Council, who read the following citation:

ROBERT CARNE BORWELL '25

Both before and after your World War II special intelligence tour of duty in our worldwide Navy, you were with a world-wide insurance organization which twice created executive positions and elected you as the first incumbent; all this while you were diligently and effectively helping to create a greater Dartmouth for her third and succeeding centuries of celebrated service to the wide, wide world. Bob, it is for year distinguished contributions to your country, your community and your College that we honor you.

You have been active in Dartmouth affairs since graduation, having served on the class executive committee, on the Alumni Council as its Vice President during your second term, and as chairman of the Class 25-Year Memorial Fund which set a giving record at that time. You worked on the 1958 Capital Gifts Campaign and currently are a member of the Third Century Fund Major Gifts Committee. Over the years you have been active in the Chicago Alumni Association, serving numerous terms on its board.

Your outstanding civic activities include long-time work with the Oak Park and River Forest Community Chests, responsibilities as Trustee of the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Union League Foundation Boys' Clubs, and Scoville Institute, and as an organizer and director of the Chicago Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Business had had the benefit of your counsel as vice president and director for many years of your insurance brokerage firm and as a director of a bank and industrial companies.

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

Carlton J. Ward '32 was honored on April 20 at the annual dinner meeting of the San Francisco Dartmouth Club. Former Councillor David P. Smith '35 read the following Alumni Award citation:

CARLTON JOSLYN WARD '32

Although for almost thirty years you have lived on Trinity Avenue and Yale Circle in Berkeley, Dartmouth has been your life. For this devotion to the College under such distracting circumstances we honor you tonight.

Before you went to California you were interested in Dartmouth affairs in Massachusetts, particularly outdoor activities, serving as chairman of the Outing Club of Boston. This interest continued in the West where you have been the "skiing" spirit in building and rebuilding a comfortable, mountain-modern cabin in the Sierras for the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California. If members find problems they all know the Club by-word: "Call Carl," maintenance engineer and treasurer.

You have been president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern California and Nevada, its long-time secretary-treasurer and editor of those high-pitched Squeaks from theGolden Gate, You are the real Iron Horse on the weekly luncheons at the Iron Horse. You personally maintain files and current address lists and generally provide the operating continuity so necessary for a club with a membership of more than a thousand. This has been a team effort with your wife, Phyl, for whose help the Club and the College are grateful. In addition to your work for these two clubs, you are a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund.

During World War II you had four years of active duty on six bases in the United States and with the 8th Air Force in Okinawa and earned four decorations. Your military activity has continued at Hamilton Field and you have been promoted through the grades to Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.

In lasting appreciation of these activities and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty and devotion to the College, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Richard Lippman '42 (l) receiving anAlumni Award from Wilbur Bullen '22.

Carter Strickland '29 (r) presents AlumniAward to his classmate, Jack Gunther.

Robert Borwell '25 (l) receives AlumniAward from Robert Mortimer '47.