Four Alumni Awards
FOUR Alumni Awards were presented during May and June by the Dartmouth Alumni Council to graduates with records notable for service to the College and their communities. Each man was given a silver miniature of the Wentworth Bowl and a framed citation.
On May 21 at the Connecticut Statewide Dinner in Hartford, an Alumni Award was conferred on Forest C. Billings '28 by Judge William H. Timbers '37, outgoing president of the Alumni Council. He read the following citation:
FORREST COWLES BILLINGS '28
In 1942, after fourteen years as a New York bachelor of banking, you became, with Genie's co-operation, the benedict of Enid Air Field and its Special Services Officer. Since 1946 you have performed many special services for your class and the College for which you are honored tonight.
Early in life, as the son of a United States Collector of Internal Revenue, you must have acquired, by osmosis or otherwise, from this autocrat at his breakfast table or in his Deerfield woodshed, certain money-collecting skills which have accounted for your long-time success as class agent and chairman of a financially profitable, carefully planned and well attended, fortieth reunion. About twenty years ago you and four other members of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford had to advance five dollars each to send out a club mailing. Your entrepreneurial magic and sustained muscle as a two-time secretary and perennial enrollment worker helped build this organization which now has one of the highest percentages of paid members on any Dartmouth Club mailing list. You were named Club Secretary of the Year in 1955.
From 1959 to 1963 you were on the Alumni Council and served as its vice president. Currently you are a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund.
All, but especially those who are insured by the three large life underwriters for which you act as mortgage loan correspondent, are proud that the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers gave you the highest appraisal award obtainable. Now they are secure in the knowledge that their premium investments are in good hands and that all they need to know about insurance is Cal Billings. For your professional competence and for your continued loyalty and service to the College we are proud to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
On June 13 at the General Association of Alumni Annual Luncheon Meeting in Hanover, J. Michael McGean, Secretary of the College, presented Alumni Awards to Russell D. Meredith '10 and William A. Carter '20, with the following citations:
RUSSELL DUDLEY MEREDITH '10
Although the soft button-down largely has replaced the hard lay-down, dress-up collar of your Hanover days, you, a former editor of collartown sparks, continue to promote the industry of Troy as the fifty-year president of your own advertising agency and collar making company. That is not all you do for Troy and the surviving handsome Arrow Collar men of your generation. You almost caused a Trojan War, not for the love of a beautiful modern-day Helen, but because you stood unequivocally for honest government and elections. However, the Supreme Court declared you the winning candidate and no shots were fired. About three years ago you began a real estate development on the property of the family gold mine in the ghost town of Atlantic City, Wyoming. Land prospectors rushed in and awarded you the Golden Apple. Happily, this one brought on no Trojan War, only a substantial deposit in your Trojan Bank.
Over the years you must have been the most civic-active man in Troy as alderman, county supervisor, mayoralty candidate, and as a director and officer of the Chamber of Commerce, Community Chest, Community Association, Automobile Club, Rotary Club, Vocal Society and Boys Club, and treasurer of your church. These are only some of your community activities.
The College and your class gratefully count your many services. You are a member of the local Executive Committee of the Third Century Fund and you were Class Agent for seven years. Now you are class president, secretary and newsletter editor. In addition you have been president-secretary of the Alumni Association of Northern and Eastern New York and active in enrollment work in that area - a truly remarkable record.
For over fifty years you have worked continuously and fervently for the College and in recognition of this long and outstanding service we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
WILLIAM AMBROSE CARTER '20
With the same steady pace you mastered over fifty years ago as a member of the cross-country team, you moved up to positions of prominence in education, government and banking, if not in money. After graduation you started at ground level in the shoe business with the purchasing of sole leather, then through manufacturing and on to selling. But automobiles fascinated you in the mid-twenties and your interests soared quickly to Flying Clouds by Reo, Grey Geese by Wills St. Clair and air cooled Franklins. Your contemplation of our economic system under which some could pay thousands for these prestigious automobiles led to the advanced study of economics and your ultimate return to Hanover to teach and head that department.
During your thirty-seven years on the faculty of the College you also were chairman of the Social Science Division and of the Committee on Educational Policy. As a former director of the Great Issues Course you must be bewitched, bothered and bewildered by the current student interest in great issues since only four short years ago the Great Issues Course was discontinued because of student disinterest. You are continuing to keep up with these changing times as director and faculty member of the Vermont-New Hampshire School of Banking and during the last two years you were the first Stephen B. Monroe Professor of Money and Banking at Kalamazoo College.
Your outstanding service in the Federal Government included Washington duty tours as NRA economic analyst, special attorney in the anti-trust division of the Justice Department and economist in the Department of Interior, Geological Survey. Your community activities are equally impressive - Director and President of the Hanover Community Housing Association, Vice-Chairman of the Hanover Planning Board, and corporation member of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. These are but a few of your many interests.
As a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund, assistant class agent and member of the Alumni Council, you have served the College faithfully. Your class is grateful for your thorough planning and efficient direction of the Glorious Fiftieth for 1920 and are proud to be present when, with abiding appreciation for your service to the nation, the community and the College, you are given the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
At the Fortieth Reunion Class Dinner on June 17, Charles E. Rauch '30 was presented with an Alumni Award by Mr. McGean, who read the following citation:
CHARLES E. RAUCH '30
A little known Missouri citizen parlayed a haberdashery business and a captaincy of Battery D into the White House. This points up the possibilities for a well-known class tie salesman, member of Squadron A and an Air Force major if he would take on a full line of shirts, shoes, sox, and suspenders. Charlie, you could then parlay this and several other presidencies into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a most appropriate residential address for a Penn-sylvania Hugenot, a Son of the Revolution and a member of the Pennsylvania Society. The votes of all of us in the other forty-nine states are sure.
You have led a double life - finance and Dartmouth. During the past forty years your successful performances in several phases of banking led to your election as president of a large Connecticut savings bank. Your outstanding professional experience, your authorship of numerous articles on finance and a book on endowments and your continued study at four banking schools account for your membership on the teaching staff at a graduate school of savings banking. In addition you were president and chairman of important state and nation-wide financial organizations and committees. While busy in your profession you also helped the community through activity in United Fund, Red Cross, taxpayers research, and as a senior warden in your church.
Immediately upon graduation you began to serve the College and your class as a class agent and later took on additional responsibilities as reunion chairman in 1945 and 1955, as class chairman for five years beginning in 1960 and as a long- time member of the executive committee. You received the Class Chairman of the Year Award in 1963 and the Class of 1930 Special Award in 1965. You were secretary of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven and served the College also as a member of the Alumni Council and the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn.
With lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty and vigorous leadership, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
Russell D. Meredith '10 (l) receivinghis award from J. Michael McGean '49.
Prof. William A. Carter '20 (I) is honoredat the Commencement luncheon.
Forrest C. Billings '28 (c) gets awardfrom Council president William Timbers '37. President Kemeny is at left.
Governor Rockefeller applauds as classmate Charles E. Ranch '30 is cited byMr. McGean at the 40th. reunion dinner.
