Two Alumni Awards Conferred

At the luncheon meeting of class officers in Hanover on May 6, the Dartmouth Alumni Council honored two of the College's outstanding graduates with the Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest tribute the Council can bestow. Presentations were made to Clark Weymouth '26 of Winnetka, Ill., and William F. Steck '31 of Cleveland by Council president Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50, who gave each recipient a small silver replica of the Eleazar Wheelock Bowl and a framed copy of the citation read to him. The citations were as follows:

CLARK WEYMOUTH '26

The seven ages of man are well known. In your first two ages, infant and schoolboy, you became the hitherto unknown "man-of-seven-names"—Clark, Meadow Muffin, Big Muffin, Muffin, Tub, Tubba, and Tubber. By any name, you are a man to be reckoned with.

For you "in the wide, wide world" meant a 42-year fruitful and fortunate life with ."Mother Warren." From Maine to Chicago, with way-stations at Boston, Rochester, and Pittsburgh, you have been a really big pulp and paper man.

There are many high-water marks on your paper career. First, the family-Mount Vernon's Mary, your bride and bright spot in the '29-'30 depression, Skip D '54, Ted D '56, and talented Sis of the Boston Conservatory. Then come your community services with the Red Cross, Community Chest, Episcopal Church, and your outstanding volunteer work at the Hadley School for the Blind, a nationally known institution which provides education, cultural enrichment, and vocational training for young people and adults.

Dartmouth has played a leading role in your life. During your five years as class agent, beginning in 1941, you were awarded the Harvey P. Hood Trophy as head agent of the class whose outstanding records stimulated the twenty younger classes to ever higher levels of accomplishment. You won the Green Derby with a record of 92% contributors and the highest average gift among the youngest twenty classes. You were secretary and then president of the Dartmouth Club of Rochester and from 1940 to 1946 you were a member of the Alumni Council. Since 1966 you have been President of your Class and served on the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund.

Clark Muf-Tub, you have made a tremendous contribution to the "stronger-tomorrow" Dartmouth, and so it is a great honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

WILLIAM FRANCIS STECK '31

You have been summoned to Hanover to hear a decree nisi granted at a previous session of this Council's nisiprius court. The decree is to become final today unless the judges of assizes at Smith College have honored you more signally for showing your wife Betty the Dartmouth way by which she increased contributions over 150 percent when she was general chairman of the Smith Alumnae Fund and for your valuable services as a committee member of the Smith Deferred Giving and Bequest Program. Hearing nothing from the South Court, our earlier decree stands and now is confirmed, to wit: Betty has one more silver bowl to polish.

Currently you are Cleveland's Court of Nisi Prius. In its 71-year history only two others in this small, prestigious group of fun-loving lawyers have served in all four Court offices—Clerk, Bailiff, Master of the Rolls, and Judge. In addition you have played roles in almost all of the last eighteen "gridiron" type shows at your annual dinners attended by politicians, judges, and business and professional leaders of the area.

Apart from Dartmouth, your interests are your profession, the community, but primarily your home and family. Your wife, a sometime president of her class and the Smith Club of Cleveland, is incredible and it is rumored that you plan to keep her. Somewhat naturally two daughters went to Smith and two sons to Dartmouth. When there was one undergraduate at each of these schools and two graduate students at Harvard, where you studied law, you admitted to some strangulation by Ivy. But think of the savings in postage when tuitions were paid and contributions now are sent in. You have five granddaughters and one grandson and now there can be a further simplification by sending all six and perhaps more to Dartmouth.

Somehow you have found time to serve for several years on the Wickliffe School Board, the Zoning and Planning Commission, and on the Community Chest. And in "leisure" hours you have become expert in landscaping and vegatable gardening and a serious student of related subjects: botany and wine.

Dartmouth is a full chapter in your life. You were a most active undergraduate—Cabin and Trail, Intramural Council, Interfraternity Council, Green Key, Palaeopitus, Dragon, Phi Beta Kappa, and you won the Gallagher Scholarship. As an alumnus you have served your Class and the College as head agent for four years, newsletter editor for three years, a member of the Alumni Council for four years, president of the Cleveland Alumni Association, and a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund.

With abiding appreciation for faithfully serving the College, your class and your community, and in grateful recognition for your continuing loyalty and wise counsel, we give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50, president of the Alumni Council, presentingAlumni Awards to Clark Weymouth '26(top) of Winnetka, Ill., and to WilliamF. Steck '3l of Cleveland, Ohio.

Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50, president of the Alumni Council, presentingAlumni Awards to Clark Weymouth '26(top) of Winnetka, Ill., and to WilliamF. Steck '31 of Cleveland, Ohio.