Alumni Council Honors Seven

During Commencement Weekend and Reunion Week the Dartmouth Alumni Council conferred its highest honor, the Dartmouth Alumni Award, on seven distinguished graduates of the College. At the General Alumni Association meeting on June 12, Council President Dero A. Saunders '35 presented the award to Samuel E. Aronowitz '11 of Albany, N.Y., and Orton H. Hicks '21 of Hanover. At reunion banquets on June 15, Mr. Saunders made the presentation to Bobb Chaney '35 of Toronto, Canada, and J. Michael McGean '49, secretary of the Council, presented the award to Robinson Bosworth Jr. '37 of Milwau- kee. At the Council's annual banquet on June 16, Mr. Saunders presented the award to Thomas G. Murdough '26 of Evanston, Ill., John W. Moxon '29 of Reading, Pa., and Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30 of Portland, Me.

The citations were as follows:

SAMUEL ETTELSON ARONOWITZ '11

Few men have recieved more signal honors for contributions to the well-being of their fellow citizens than you, Sam. For over a half century you have been an active participant in almost every worth- while project for good in the Albanv area.

The study and early practice of law demand most of a young man's time but you did both exceptionally well, and also taught in night school for seven years before the first draft called you to World War I service which included the Battles of St. Mihiel and the Argonne. You returned to law practice in 1919, contributed your time and talents to the solution of veterans' problems, and held the highest local and state offices in the American Legion which later gave you its Distinguished Citizen Award.

Law, banking, industry, hospitals, colleges, religious, fraternal and benevolent organizations and professional baseball have profited from your advice and steadying influence. Your services as a distinguished jurist, civic leader, philanthropist, and humanitarian have merited the Golden Deeds and Human Relations Awards in recognition of your varied and useful career.

Your service to the College has not been less distinguished. You have undertaken special legal assignments and served effectively on the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund. You are now completing ten years as Class Bequest Chairman, having been an assistant class agent and a long-time participant in enrollment programs. More than forty years ago you were president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern New York and since then you have been active behind the scenes in Dartmouth affairs, all of which have earned for you the sobriquet of "Mr. Dartmouth in Albany."

In recognition of your outstanding contributions to your community and the College, it is an honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

ORTON HAVERGAL HICKS '21

Until 1958 when you returned to Dartmouth to get paid for doing what you had long been doing for nothing, it was widely known that you had sold photographic equipment and distributed movie films, but few knew that in a scenario writing competition the judges awarded first place to your entry—"A Knight on the Mediterranean." After reading it, the contest manager felt obliged to reduce your grand prize from a cruise on the Mediterranean to a more reasonable boat ride around the West Indies. This says a lot about your scenario but leaves it hard to imagine what the losers were like.

Another little known fact is your 1929 hiatus in the film business when you began selling securities based on oil royalties. The May 1929 issue of the Alumni Magazine quotes you, "It has long been a thriving business in the oil country and the East is just waking up to it." Fortunately you were back in the film distribution business before the East and the District Attorney's office had been awakened fully.

You've got The Touch. You got it in various ways—for example, memorizing the Freshman Green Book during the first week in school. But ever since the Long Island Lighting Company began supplying your motivating power through the fourteen carat gold-plated meter they gave you as their 500,000th customer, everything's been coming up golden.

As an undergraduate you were a member of Palaeopitus and a senior organizer of Green Key. During your sophomore year you were the varsity center on the weakest team in Dartmouth's football history, and although it is not clear whether this was because or in spite of you, some light on the questions may be gathered from the fact that the DCAC encouraged you to enter the non-athletic competition at the close of the football season. Subsequently you became associate editor of The Dartmouth, an office to which your recent letters to the editor may indicate that you again aspire.

During the thirty-six years you were out in the wide, wide world you became a director of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Loew's International, Barnett Inter- Corp, and Royalties Management Corporation, and a trustee of Shattuck. In 1967 you received the Old Shads' Citation for distinguished service to the School.

In the movie trade you are known as Mr. 16mm., small-sized recognition for one who is credited with taking entertainment and documentary films to all areas of the world and on the Seven Seas where the larger equipment and films could not be made available. Mr. World Wide Screen is a more appropriate sobriquet for Colonel Hicks of the Army Signal Corps who was the first to take film entertainment to the troops in the field, long before Bob Hope, amply supported by Raquel Welch and Jane Russell, began his tour of the fronts. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forest would have said that you were there "fustest" but Bob came later with the "mostest."

It is impossible to list here all of your service to the College. Your major comtributions as Vice President of the College, president of the Alumni Council, key leader on the National Executive Committee of the Third Century Fund, an Overseer of the Tuck School, class president , assistant class agent, and secretary of the Dartmouth Club of New York are well known to everyone, everywhere. Few have been so loyal, so able, and so effective. All Dartmouth men are indebted to you to an extent far beyond the power of repayment. Even the most eloquent words cannot express their high and affectionate esteem

It is a great honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

THOMAS GORDEN MURDOUGH '26

For a 1926 plumber you've done all right. Although your 1936 move from Crane's wash bowl to the Southwest's dus: bowl was a gross hy gienic non sequitur. you had the right prescription for increasing the sales of American Hospital Supply products — everything from antiseptic smell- to heavy equipment— and within eighteen years you returned to Chicago and took over the president's jot as you told him you would when he hirec you.

You also have had the right prescripts for life—a life of service to projects of merit. The YMCA, the James C. King Home, the Christopher House, the Com munity Chest, the Presbyterian Home, and Goodwill Industries are grateful for you generous support and continuing counsel as officer, director, and trustee. You have been an associate of Northwestern University, a member of the Illinois Governor- Advisory Council, the Development Con mittee and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Evanston, a director of the Evanston and Illinois State Chambers of Commerce, a director of the Economics Club of Chicago, and a trustee of the Hospital Planning Council for Metropolitan Chicago —a remarkable record of public service.

You have been a leader in Dartmouth affairs ever since you chose to be Present at your wedding instead of attending your fifth class reunion. Grace's agreement share you in the future with the College may have been a condition precedent at that time, but now, in the light of subsequent events, it seems quite clear that she shares your devotion to the College.

You were a member of the Alumni Council from 1962 to 1966 and Vice. President in 1965. You were Vice-President of the General Dartmouth Alumni Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the 1960 Dartmouth Medical School Fund Campaign and of the Major Giffs Committee of the Third Century Fund. Your and Grace's magnificent gifts of Tuck School scholarship Funds, the Experimental Greenhouse, and the Tuck Mall Center as President Dickey said, "dramatic aret'imonv to the singular devotion that has kSn oart of this College for 200 years."

With abiding gratitude, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

JOHN WILLIAM MOXON '29

Jack-a securities underwriter, a trust officer a maker of high-priced iron and u ' explorer of new horizons in the world of specialty metals, a New Jersey political reformer, reformation trained at the Sorbonne School of Political Science and at the University of Nancy, an untrained farmer of 185 Pennsylvania acres, a trustee of Albright College, and an Overseer of the Tuck School—we salute you.

During the past twenty-seven years you have held all principal offices of Carpenter Technology Corporation, the last twelve years as President, and within the month you will become Chairman. You have been the president and director of your Canadian operation as well as director of the American Bank and Trust Company of Reading, the American Iron and Steel Institute, chairman of the boards of Titanium Technology and Gardner Cryogenics Corporations, and director of Textile Machine Works of Reading, Leicester, England and Australia.

Many civic organizations, business associations and community services have been fortunate to have your counsel and direction over the years. These include, among others, the Reading Charity Holding Corporation, the Reading Home for Widows and Single Women, United Community Services of Berks County, Planned Parenthood, National Association of Manufacturers, United States and Pennsylvania State Chambers of Commerce, Berks County Community Chest, and the Reading Hospital—a most impressive list.

Your service to the College has been no less impressive. You were president of the Eastern Pennsylvania Alumni Association for nine years, class agent for six years, a member of the Alumni Council for three years, and on the Major Gifts Committee of the Third Century Fund.

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

FRED CLARK SCRIBNER JR. '30

Your file in the Alumni Records Office is filled with newspaper clippings of frontpage stories and four- column photographs under headlines of a type-size usually reserved for declarations of war and similar major catastrophies proclaiming that Fred Clark Scribner Jr., fresh from Bath but now out of Portland, has just taken over another high government post or emer8ed from a smoke-filled back room with new power in party Pontics. The shortage of front-page space remaining after reporting on the doings of this portly Portlander became so critical in June 1959 that the hometown Independent Republican newspaper, the Press Herald, found it necessary to consolidate its report on the accumulation of degrees honoris causa on Saturday, Sunday and Monday in a single story under the headline SCRIBNER GIVEN THIRD DEGREE IN WEEK. Truly you are the Man From Maine.

You have been a national figure in the Republican Party—national committeeman from Maine and general counsel for the national committee. You were general counsel for the U. S. Treasury, Assistant Secretary then Undersecretary of the Treasury, and you hold the Treasury Department's Alexander Hamilton Award. Dartmouth, Maine, Bowdoin, Colby, and Vermont gave you honorary Doctorates of Law. You are a trustee of Bradford Junior College and the Cardigan Mountain School, a member of the National Council of Boy Scouts and the holder of the Silver Beaver Award, Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, and a director of the American Council for Nationalities Services.

The College is grateful for your alumni activities as secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Maine, a member of the Alumni Council, the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund, and Class Executive Committee. For many years you were an assistant class agent and recently the class president for five years. In 1967 you were honored as Class President of the Year.

With lasting appreciation for these achievements and in recognition of your continuing loyalty, vigorous leadership, and wise counsel, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

BOBB CHANEY '35

On your first job with a flour mill you made 82,000 pancakes in one season for church socials and community affairs as a market research project. You have been equally thorough in everything you have done since then—in your field of advertising, in your community, and for the College.

You have held responsible positions in BBD&O and Y&R, important alphabetical combinations in the advertising profession, and you have been a director of marketing and development in well-known industrial companies. Your professional associates have elected you to the highest offices of advertising associations and institutes in the United States and Canada.

Many religious and charitable organizations are grateful for your services as officer and director. The Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, the YMCA, the Children's Home Society, the Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Sister Kenny Foundation have had the benefit of your advice and counsel during the past twenty years. Also, you were a founding member and the moderator in 1955-56 of the Colonial Church of Edina.

Your interest in Dartmouth affairs began as an undergraduate when you were business manager of The Dartmouth, treasurer of Palaeopitus and Green Key, and a member of Dragon, the Interfraternity Council, and the Canoe and Glee Clubs. Your service to the College continued as class treasurer for eleven years, class agent, class president for eight years, president and secretary of the Northwest Alumni Association, a member of enrollment committees for thirty years, and a member of the Alumni Council, 1961-62.

In recognition of your outstanding service to your profession, your commun- ity, and the College, it is an honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

ROBINSON BOSWORTH IR. '37

In these days when change and mobility in business careers are the usual, your record of thirty-four years of steady progress in one company from stock clerk to chairman and chief executive officer is most unusual, really phenomenal. You and the company grew together. You were responsible for that growth. It is a remarkable record.

While successfully guiding Will Ross, Inc. and subsidiary companies, you were elected director of Cutler-Hammer, First Wisconsin National Bank, First Wisconsin Bankshares Corporation, Northwestern National Insurance Company, Northwestern National Casualty Company, and Wehr Corporation, and you served on the boards of Milwaukee Downer Seminary, University School, Wisconsin Anti-TB Association, and Cerebral Palsy of Greater Milwaukee, Inc., and as trustee of the Milwaukee Auditorium-Arena.

For over twenty years you have been active in alumni affairs of the College as a member of the Alumni Council, as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Wisconsin, and as president of your class. You were class agent, area chairman and member of the local and national executive committees of the Third Century Fund and on the National Committee of the Dartmouth Medical School Fund Campaign in 1960. You have recently become Chairman of the 1971 and 1972 Alumni Fund Campaigns.

With abiding appreciation for so faithfully serving the College, your class and your community, we are honored to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary ofthe College, the Alumni Council, andsundry other organizations, summonsmembers of the Council to work.