Class Secretary of the Year

1965's Class Secretary Paul R. Mahoney was honored as Secretary of the Year at Class Officers Weekend May 4-5. He received the following citation:

Looking at the record, a popular pastime these days, suggests that you, Rick, should be a candidate for "All-round Education Man of the Last Eight Years."

After two years as a teacher, a coach and a director of athletics at Storm King School, you were married to a very attractive math teacher and then moved to Phillips Exeter Academy as admissions officer and JV basketball and baseball coach. Two years later you were elected to the Dartmouth Alumni Council and in 1971 you became Director of Annual Giving at Exeter.

There is little possibility that your range of educational involvement, persona! and by marriage, can be met by anyone so, by acclamation, you are declared the winner.

From your vantage point at Exeter, New Hampshire, you keep close tabs on your many and far-flung classmates. Eight years out of College, they still are subject to the vagaries of career and address changes, but few escape their Secretary's conscientious news staff of one. Never under the influence of the New England doldrums, your Light n' Lively, 99% Fat Free Notes report, in clear flowing prose, on the current practices and professions of the ABs and the recent arrival of the "Baybees" which bring such endless joy and nights to the prideful parents. This looks easy to write but it isn't.

Class Secretary since graduation, you would be a master at penning an apology for late copy but in your tenure, none has been necessary.

We are proud to name you Class Secretary of the Year.