Alumni Award

At the luncheon meeting of class officers in Hanover on May 1, Edwin B. Pease '25 of Winthrop, Mass., was honored with the Dartmouth Alumni Award, conferred by the Dartmouth Alumni Council as its highest tribute to graduates of the College who have rendered distinguished service to Dartmouth College and to their professions and communities. Dero A. Saunders '35, president of the Council, presented to Mr. Pease a silver miniature of the Wentworth Bowl and read the following citation:

Dartmouth and insurance have been your life, but you have found time for travel, golf, tennis, skiing, billiards, bowling, and bridge. Soon after you were graduated travel began on a British cattleboat where the cows got fat and you got thin. Following some overstaying and overpaying in London and Paris, you got back to port, woefully short of funds and able to afford only horsemeat and like delicacies while waiting for passage home at Sailor's Rest. Since then you have logged hundreds of thousands of hours in planes where the air is fresher and the food is better.

Shortly after becoming secretary of your company, the Supreme Court decreed that insurance was commerce and therefore subject to certain laws. You, in conference with other boiler and machinery insurance company officials, prepared a Manual of Rules and Rates and designed the new policy forms and schedules used for many years by your company. You went on to become vice president. With your hand on the safety valve, fewer explosions could be expected.

You have manifested your love for Dartmouth through long, faithful and generous support of many of her activities. You were a member of the interviewing committee and of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund. You have been an assistant class agent, coordinating the efforts of other agents in the Boston metropolitan area. The record shows that you have never missed a class reunion and were always the reunion treasurer. Dependability must be the reason you were selected repeatedly for that job. No individual attendance records are kept but those who might know believe that few have attended more Big Green athletic events. For thirteen years you were class secretary from which you resigned only recently.

Few of the many devoted alumni have served the College so fervently, and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Edwin B. Pease '25 (r) receiving theAlumni Award from Dero Saunders '35.

Frank L. Harrington '24 (center), who retired as a Dartmouth Charter Trusteein April, receives a Paul Sample painting of the campus fom Board chairmanCharles J. Zimmerman '23 (left) and President Kemeny.