Class Secretary of the Year

The honor of Class Secretary of the Year was conferred on Stanley Burnham Weld '12 at the gathering of class officers in Hanover on May 1. The following citation accompanied the award:

For almost ten years, whether gynecologing in Hartford, gamboling in Las Vegas, or sojourning in Chebeague, you have sent in promptly your full coverage notes on the lives and times of your classmates and the girls of the class. Even when your house was robbed twice within three days, at press deadline time in '66 and when you were ready to leave on your wedding trip, you got your copy in without delay. Had you been living about 430 B.C. you, and not the famed Persian messengers, would have been the inspiration for the adapted Herodotus inscription on the New York Post Office.

The medical profession has been your life both as a private practitioner and as an influential leader who has done so much to raise it to its present proud eminence.

Dartmouth is grateful for devotion and service as a long time member of the Dartmouth Club of Connecticut and as president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, and is proud to include as graduates of the College your son David '46 and your grandson Robert McGuire '69.

Writing is your avocation. For many years you have been in top positions in national and state medical publications management. Your colleagues have named a conference room in the office building of the Connecticut State Medical Society in your honor as enduring evidence of your leadership and contributions to the Society. You have written many editorials, historical and medical articles, and several books, and are a member of a number of associations of writers and historians.

With this background you qualify naturally as secretary of your class and the high quality and broad extent of your communications have earned for you the designation as Secretary of the Year.