Alumni Awards

Five Dartmouth Alumni Awards, the highest honor the Alumni Council can bestow, were conferred on distinguished alumni of the College during Commencement Weekend and Reunion Week. Carroll Dwight '22 of Chestnut Hill, Mass., received the award from Council President Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50 at the luncheon meeting of the General Association of Alumni on June 10. At a meeting on June 13, J. Michael McGean '49, Secretary of the College, presented the award to Emil Mosbacher Jr. '43 of Washington, D.C. Harold S. Hirsch '29 of Portland, Ore., William H. Morton '32 of Rye, N.Y., and Lawrence Marx Jr. '36 of Purchase, N.Y., received the award from Mr. McCullough at the Alumni Council's annual dinner on June 15.

The citations were as follows:

CARROLL DWIGHT '22

Fifty years ago with the skills of St. Crispin and the tanner of Joppa, you became the fourth generation of your family to associate actively with London Harness. It is suspected that secretly you hoped by some Simonian thaumaturgy to wipe out the horseless carriage and return the world to the elegance of nineteenth century travel. That miracle failed, however, and you continued to provide the carriage trade with the finest in leather goods and luggage. Even in retirement you are an acknowledged leader in your field.

Your World War II record of activities is not so impressive. You flattened lots of tin cans, walked miles, washed an equal distance of floors, and ran a mangle at night in the Children's Hospital. As warden of the local post, you messed up phone calls during practice alerts and sat up all night waiting for the call that never came. The job involved also some blowing of whistles, and yelling at neighbors to put out their lights. The files fail to show that you were recommended for a Commendation Ribbon.

Dartmouth is fortunate to number among her alumni many dedicated civic and business leaders who serve the College with equal devotion. You are one of these. For thirty years you have held various positions with the College, your Class, and associated organizations. You were a member of the Alumni Council from 1966 to 1969 and you have been Class Treasurer and an Assistant Class Agent since 1945. You were a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund. For ten years you were a member of the interviewing committee and now you are Vice President of the Dartmouth Educational Association.

You have done outstanding work in everything you have undertaken, much of it being done so quietly that only a few have known of your complete service to the College.

In grateful recognition, it is our honor to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

HAROLD SELLER HIRSCH '29

For a ski bum you've come a long way, all uphill. In forty years you towed the annual output of your White Stag ski clothes up to a place that is over forty thousand times higher than your first production gamble. Your designs fitted the uphill transportation and the downhill techniques and were stretched so tight over the skier that anyone could tell heads from tails on a dime in the back pocket of the gal ahead in the ski line. After-ski clothes followed, naturally, and then came clothing and equipment for complete recreational enjoyment under your theory that "nothing in the world is inaccessible for most of our citizens." You have proved that to be a good line.

Although your favorite recreation in addition to skiing is riding your champion hunters, white-water running and relaxing in your ocean house, your educational and civic interests leave little time for this. You have been a long-time trustee of Reed College and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Oregon Busines School. Recently you became the first Business-Man-in-Residence to meet with classes at the University's Business and Law Schools as a lecturer and seminar leader. You are Commissioner of the Port of Portland Commission, a member of the National Citizens' Committee on Community Relations, a former board member of the Portland Art Museum School, a trustee of the Catlin-Gabel School, and a past president of the Gabel Country Day School.

You always have found time to serve your College. During the early days of Alumni College you promoted the idea of bringing the faculty to the West Coast to conduct Alumni Seminars for those who could not go to classes in Hanover in the summer. Your arrangements for the Alumni Seminar of the Pacific Northwest have set a pattern for many such meetings throughout the country. You were area chariman for the Third Century Fund in 1968 and a member of the Alumni Council for three years prior to that.

In grateful appreciation of your service to your community, your country, and your College, we are proud to give you the

WILLIAM HANSON MORTON '32

The 1931 game in which you kicked a field goal to tie Yale at 33-33 is not your favorite game. You said that tying is not winning. But for excitement it must do until another incredible Ivy League game comes along.

You made foot- ball history in high school too. With a slight injury and dressed in street clothes, you were watching the game from the stands. After official and medical approval the coach brought you down to the bench where you changed shoes, went on the field, kicked the goal, and won the game. Next year the rules prohibited that. And no more such Frank Merriwell stories were written. You took the fancy and fiction out of them. You made the facts more exciting.

You played unusual football and hockey regularly—the reasons for your All-American selection one year in football and two years in hockey and for the Silver Anniversary All-American selection in 1956 which honored you for what you did 25 years before and for what you had achieved since—a truly great honor.

Your life is not all sports, although you entered the security business in 1932 on a fast and sporty course. Investments have been your chief interest and you have been a member of important commissions and associations in this field over the past thirty years.

While successfully directing an investment and international banking business, you have found time to serve as trustee of Rye Country Day School, Holderness School, Greenwich Savings Bank, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; as director of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and Firemans Fund Insurance Company, and on the Finance Committee of the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children.

Although busy in your profession and in these diverse activities, you have been a valued servant of your Class as class agent and memorial fund agent for ten years. You were chairman of the DC AC Football Advisory Committee in 1947 and Chairman of the DCAC from 1969 to 1971. For six years you were a member of the Alumni Council and in 1949-50 you were president of the Westchester County Alumni Association. During the Third Century Fund Campaign you were a member of the National Executive Committee and New York City Area Chairman. Now you are about to become a Charter Trustee of the College.

For this devotion to Dartmouth and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty, vigorous leadership and wise counsel, we are proud to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

LAWRENCE MARX JR. '36

Sportsman—star of squash, skiing and sailing, sports car racing, tennis, golf—and a great competitor in all sports. Your will to win and succeed dominates all your activities, a trait taught by your father who was a noted yachtsman and a great philanthropist. In his house you learned that charity began at home.

Sometimes ago you gave the former Marx home where you grew up to the Boy Scouts. This gift seemed most appropriate because your wife, Jane, had been a den mother when your son was a cub and she knew all the dark nooks in that house which might require search and perhaps rescue of choice bits and pieces.

Your philanthropic and fund-raising work has been almost without bounds. You have been vice president of the Foundation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and chairman of its fund drive, the largest local fund appeal in the world. You are chairman of the board of the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged in New York City, chairman of the Patrons Committee for the $250,000 Westchester Golf Classic, and vice-chairman of the tournament, and chairman of the Trustees Finance Committee of the United Hospital. In 1965 you and Jane were awarded the Citation for Distinguished Services in Human Relations at the Westchester Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for your intense dedication to human freedom and for your years of communal service. You contribute your services to education as Trustee of Hood College and as a member of the Stanford University Cabinet.

The College has been a grateful benefactor of your effective leadership in fund raising. You worked in every level of the Third Century Fund Campaign—co-chairman of the National Alumni Committee, National Executive Committee and Major Gifts Committee—and you did an eminently successful job in all areas. You were a member of the Foundations Committee of the Dartmouth Medical School Campaign of 1960 and now you are a member of the Trustees' Resources Committee. From 1963 to 1966 you were a member of the Alumni Council.

In grateful recognition of your dedication to society and the College and in lasting appreciation of these achievements and your continuing loyalty, we are honored to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

EMIL MOSBACHER JR. '43

Mr. Ambassador, although you had sailed against princes and crewed for a king and skippered sleek 12-meter yachts to victory in two America's Cup defenses, you got no better advice when you took over protocol for that larger, more troublesome tub in Washington than your wife Pat's suggestion "It's only a matter of manners. Just remember what your mother told you." Between changing clothes and sleeping, you have been tacking with dexterity from the first, always in full command of the other boats' wind and way.

Between successful steerings of massed flotillas of visiting princes, presidents and potentates through the treacherous shoals of Washington protocol and trips to their lands for appropriate reciprocations, you attend to the family business in New York and serve as director of two banks, a life insurance company, two manufacturing companies, and the flagships of sporting goods outfitters. In addition you are a trustee of the Lennox Hill Hospital, a member of the executive committee of the Yacht Racing and Junior Yacht Racing Associations of Long Island Sound, and chairman of the Mamaroneck Frostbite Association.

In 1967 you received the Choate Alumni Seal Prize which is awarded each year to the alumnus who is supremely competent in his field and who has brought distinction to the school and himself. Two years later you were given the Colonel Edward Eagan Sportsman's Award and hailed as one of the world's foremost sailing helmsmen and as goodwill ambassador for the United States in international sport. That same year you were elected to the Intercollegiate Sailing Hall of Fame for your contributions to the development of college sailing.

In Dartmouth affairs you have been most prominent. You were president of your Class for five years and in 1962 you were elected to the Alumni Council, representing the Class Presidents Association. You served on the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn and as a member of the Foundation Committee for the 1960 Dartmouth Medical School Campaign. Dartmouth gave you an honorary Master of Arts degree in 1963. You were co-chairman of the National Alumni Commit- tee of the successful Third Century Fund and a key leader of the Fund's National Executive Committee.

In lasting appreciation of these achievements and your service to your country and in grateful acknowledgment of the loyalty and leadership enjoyed over the years by the College, it is a privilege to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.