Alumni Awards

Three Dartmouth graduates of successive classes were honored last month by the Alumni Council for their extraordinary service to the College and their communities.

S. Sidney Stoneham '33, a Boston lawyer and civic leader, received the Dartmouth Alumni Award on April 4 at the 108th annual dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Greater Boston.

Martin J. Dwyer '34 of Pleasantville, N.Y., vice president and account supervisor for Kenyon and Eckhardt, New York advertising firm, and Robert W. Naramore '35, vice president of Bridgeport Fabrics, Bridgeport, Conn., received Alumni Awards the following evening at a New York dinner meeting of Alumni Fund class agents.

Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50 of Barrington, R.I., president of the Alumni Council, made the presentations on both occasions.

The citations to the three men were as follows:

S. SIDNEY STONEMAN '33

Sidney, Savile Row, Chesterfieldian resplendence always is your mark. Wllen you were a visiting commissioner, sleeping under army tents in the Negev and on the east bank of the Suez, troop commanders never suggested that you change to fatigues. Such sartorial splendor, they reasoned, should be sustained under all circumstances, even in the desert.

A brief glance at a tally of your roles in civic, cultural and philanthropic life of the community and the country would make anyone wonder when you found time for either your business and profession or visits to your London tailor. Just reading development letters from the twelve colleges attended by you and members of your family would break an ordinary man. But you are extra-ordinary.

Unfortunately there can be only a partial listing here of the more widely known, important positions you hold and the honors you have received for doing great things for others. You are President of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, President of Beth Israel Hospital, Trustee and past Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Member of the Executive Committee and Director of the Massachusetts Bay United Fund, Fellow of Brandeis University, former national vice president of the American Jewish Congress, vice president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Boston, co-chairman for the New England Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, honorary life treasurer of the American Jewish Congress-New England Region, and the recipient of the Human Relations Citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

You have served the College and your Class as a long-time assistant agent and for six years as head agent. You were on the Boston Executive Committee and a member of the Major Gifts Committee of the Third Century Fund. From 1963 to 1966 you were a member of the Alumni Council and 1965-66 you were an Overseer of the Hanover Inn. Since 1968 you have been President of your Class.

Only occasionally does a man come along whose entire life sums up the ideal of great service to the community and the College. In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty, vigorous leadership and wise counsel, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

MARTIN JOSEPH DWYER '34

Last November's staff memo which welcomed you to K&E was read against the background music of Bessie Smith and Fletch Henderson doing "Graveyard Dream Blues" on a 1925 Cameo label 78. This was fair warning to all that your "people banks" and "growpower" copy would be coming on in syncopated blue melodic movements, treated generously with minor chords. Through your interest in collecting old 78s you came to know the 1920 copywriters who sold Jordans by describing the excitement of a romantic adventure in a Playboy somewhere west of Laramie—a far cry from today's "Try it, you'll like it."

Following a postgraduate, ten-week, six thousand mile tour of western Europe for the incredibly small sum of $300, portal to portal, you spent eleven years in promotion on the business side of magazine publishing and then three years as a naval officer before becoming a drug store cowboy. Twenty years ago you returned to advertising and twice have enjoyed the ultimate account man's accolade of being asked by the client to continue handling the account when the agency was being changed.

Since 1942 you have promoted Joy's cooking and enjoyed Pleasantville life with two pairs of young kings and queens. During five years on the Library Board, three as chairman, you almost single-handedly planned and built the new Mount Pleasant Public Library. And you worked hard to improve the school system too—a most commendable public service record.

While unselfishly contributing to the welfare of others you found the time to be president of the Westchester County, New York, Club and a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund. For eleven years you were secretary and president of your Class. You have attended all class reunions except one and were chairman of your Tenth and Twentieth.

In grateful recognition of your dedication to society and the College and of your continuing devotion to your Class, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

ROBERT WILLIAM NARAMORE '35

Every Dartmouth Class that would be great—a possibility which we at least concede to 1935—must have in it one or more men like you—the more the better, but at least one.

Throughout the history of the Class you have always been ready and willing to do the job that needed doing. Sometimes you surfaced as an officer, such as the years in which you were head class agent for the Alumni Fund and led the Class to outstanding records including 1935's first Green Derby, an amazing 97% participation on a base of over 550, plus better than 100% of objective every year. Other times you have worked behind the scenes, but always you have been a key worker who could be counted on.

In addition you have served the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport as secretary, and have carried major local responsibilities in both of Dartmouth's capital campaigns.

Somehow you have also found time to operate a major element of Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc., as well as being director of the YMCA, the Bridgeport Chapter of the American Cancer Society, a member of the Advisory Board of the Connecticut National Bank, and a co-founder of the Sales Executive Club of Bridgeport.

Perhaps your greatest service to your Class and the College, and the thing for which you are most loved, is the unfailing sense of humor which has enlivened more meetings and pricked more pompous balloons than anyone else can claim.

In recognition of these attributes and services, we happily give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Alumni Council President Norman E.McCulloch '50 presenting awards to(top) Sidney Stoneman '33, (center) Martin Dwyer '34, and Robert W. Naramore'35 at alumni dinners last month.

Alumni Council President Norman E.McCulloch '50 presenting awards to(top) Sidney Stoneman '33, (center) Martin Dwyer '34, and Robert W. Naramore'35 at alumni dinners last month.

Alumni Council President Norman E.McCulloch '50 presenting awards to(top) Sidney Stoneman '33, (center) Martin Dwyer '34, and Robert W. Naramore'35 at alumni dinners last month.