Alumni Award

At the combined dinner of the Trustees and Alumni Council on Friday evening, January 14, the Dartmouth Alumni Award was presented to Frank T. Kennedy '25 of Short Hills, N. J., investment executive and former Council member. On behalf of the Alumni Council, President Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50 made the award and read the following citation:

Enterprise is the one word which best characterizes your life. It sustained you in the early thirties when it was a struggle to stay on a Wall Street payroll—when an affordable dinner was hot dogs, apple pie and coffee. It helped you to lay the foundation in those hard times for a pre-eminent government securities business and to bring about, thirty years later, the marriage of your Devine people with "We the people" of Merrill Lynch.

The Enterprise, the fightingest ship in the Navy, and the aircraft carrier Lexington, were bases for your squadrons of night fighters which knocked out a record number of enemy planes in the Pacific campaign.

Your enterprise was instrumental in the establishment of Aquinas House, the outstanding student religious center at the College which has become a model for those centers at other schools.

Through the years you have been an authority in your professional field of United States government and municipal financing, author, lecturer, and member of important associated organizations, committees, and commissions. You have been chairman of the Newark Heart Research Institute and trustee of St. Michael's Hospital and the Millburn Township Health Fund. Your church has honored you by papal recognition through membership in the Knights of Malta and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.

Your service to the College has been no less distinguished. You have been a class agent and a faithful participant in class affairs and now you are active in enrollment work. You were the Northern New Jersey area chairman for the Medical School Campaign, board member of the Dartmouth Clubs of New York and Essex and Morris, and from 1962 to 1965 you were a member of the Alumni Council and on the Alumni Fund Committee of the Council.

In grateful recognition of this outstanding service to your country, your church, your community, and the College, it is an honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Frank T. Kennedy '25 (center), who was honored with a Dartmouth AlumniAward, receives congratulations as President Kemeny registers agreement.

Architect's rendering of the new tower and new four-story building of the ScienceCenter to be constructed in juxtaposition to Steele and Wilder Halls.