Two Receive Alumni Awards
Two Dartmouth graduates who have given outstanding service to the College for many years were honored by the Alumni Council last month with the Dartmouth Alumni Award. Lester R. Godwin '30 of Winchester, Mass., received the Council's highest honor at the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association on March 23. Howland H. Sargeant '32 of New York City received his award the following night at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York.
The presentation to Mr. Godwin, president and treasurer of the General Oil Company of Medford, Mass., was made by Wilbur W. Bullen '22, chairman of the Alumni Awards Committee of the Alumni Council. The award to Mr. Howland, president of the Radio Liberty Committee of New York City, was made by Dero A. Saunders '35, president of the Council.
The Dartmouth Alumni Award is given to men who, in addition to serving the College, have achieved distinction in their careers and in their public or community service. Each recipient is given a framed citation and a small silver replica of the Wentworth Bowl.
The citations accompanying last month's awards were as follows:
LESTER ROY GODWIN '30
Long before the professor from New Haven considered writing about the greening of America, you were Big Greening New England by maintaining an active hot line and an extensive bus line between Hanover and every boy you felt should see the beauty and know the great opportunities at the College, always realizing that his appreciation of both might be enhanced considerably if he excelled in athletics. Your efforts were born of a true love for Dartmouth and not, as some of the more crass and technically minded might suggest, out of an earlier connection with the telephone company and a twenty-year association with the Air Transport Command. The U. S. Air Force awarded you the Legion of Merit and the Commendation Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters. That is a five star performance, Colonel, Sir, and the College is proud and grateful.
In addition to operating your own Dartmouth Show and Tell activity you have been a national enrollment area chairman and a long-time member of the interviewing committee. You were an assistant class agent, a member of the executive committee of your class, of the local Third Century Fund, and of the Boston Alumni Association and during the year of its 100th Anniversary you were its President. You have been a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council and on its Alumni Fund Committee.
Activities in your community and industry have been as impressive as your service to the College. You have been a trustee of your church and a director of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Medford Citizens Commit tee. You have served as director and president of Lions International and as a director of the New England Fuel Institute and chairman of the Better Heat Council
In grateful recognition of three decades of dedication to the College, your country your community, and your industry, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
HOWLAND HILL SARGEANT '32
Howland H. Sargeant, an able and distinguished public servant, you always reflected honor upon Dartmouth while advancing so effectively and persistently the cause of freedom of choice and action for the individual. As a member of the Alumni Council and as its President, and as President of the General Alumni Association, you have provided leadership and counsel for which the College ever will be grateful.
You were president of your class from 1937 to 1942 and recently served on the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund. You are widely known in sports circles as the long-time player-coach of the Dartmouth Club of New York squash team.
The most powerful independent voice heard in the USSR today has been your responsibility since 1954 when you became president of Radio Liberty Committee. It is an informed voice, spoken in 17 languages, mostly by former Soviet citizens who give the free world's side of the story. The Committee also supports a research center which distributes information and analyses dealing with the Soviet Union. Before Radio Liberty you were chairman of three successive U. S. delegations to the UNESCO General Conferences and in 1951 you became the only American ever elected president of a UNESCO General Conference. You gathered more experience in international persuasion as Deputy and later as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1946 to 1953. This work earned for you the State Department's Superior Service Award in 1949. and in 1951 the Army gave you its Certificate of Appreciation. For your contribution to international broadcasting you received the Shevchenko Freedom Award in 1966 from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
As an undergraduate you became a Senior Fellow, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earned an unusually high scholastic average, were awarded the Barrett Cup to. all-round achievement, the Mina H. Warren and Edwin R. Perkins Prize Scholarships, and received a Rhodes Scholarship Extracurricular activities included membership in Palaeopitus, Green Key, The Arts, Sphinx, and the Athletic Council and in addition, you were manager of basebll, class treasurer, and president.
In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty and wise counsel, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.
Lester R. Godwin '30 (r) receiving hisaward from Wilbur W. Bullen '22.
Howland Hill Sargeant '32
