Alumni Awards

The Dartmouth Alumni Award, highest honor the Alumni Council can bestow, was conferred on five distinguished graduates of the College during the Reunion Week. At their respective class reunion banquets, William B. Head '27 of Houston, Texas, George I. Davis '28 of Glens Falls, N.Y., and William T. Dewey '33 of White River Junction, Vt., were honored. At the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Council in Hanover on June 14, John D. Dodd '22 of Summit, N.J., and Delwyn J. Worthington '26 were honored.

Presentations were made by Alumni Council President Vincent W. Jones '52, except at the 1928 dinner, where the presentation to Mr. Davis was made by his classmate, Ralph L. Rickenbaugh '28. former president of the Alumni Council.

The citations accompanying the awards were as follows:

JOHN DOTY DODD '22

You hold the unique distinction in the annals of those who have watched over Dartmouth's affairs during its entire 204-year history of being a triple-threat caretaker. In 1970-71 you were a member of the Board of Trustees of the College and the Boards of Overseers of both the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering.

Chronologically, your election as Trustee of the College came first and you served in that capacity from 1961 through 1971. In 1963 you became a member of the Tuck Board of Overseers and were reelected to three-year terms in 1966 and 1969. In 1970 you were named to the Thayer Board of Overseers to facilitate the development of joint Tuck and Thayer facilities and future programs of collaboration by the two associated graduate schools.

You have compiled a long list of additional service to Dartmouth. You were a member of the Alumni Council from 1959 to 1961 and National Chairman of the Alumni Fund in 1961 and 1962, years in which both Fund campaigns exceeded one million dollars. You were class head agent from 1956 to 1962, president of the Class Agents Association and worked on the Third Century Fund. You gave the Fifty-Year Address at the meeting of the General Association of Alumni in 1972.

Your business affiliation has been as purposeful as your service to the College. For 42 years you were associated with the Bell Telephone system, joining it upon graduation and retiring as vice-president of the New York Telephone Co. in 1964. Career way stations were Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania as traffic student in 1922-23, New York Telephone Co. as district traffic superintendent in 1924-26, engineer in 1926-30 with American Telephone and Telegraph Co., and various positions with the New York Telephone Co. before becoming a vice-president in 1945.

You held a number of civic, church, and club offices. From 1941 to 1952 you were an East Orange, New Jersey, recreation commissioner and a trustee of the Bethel Presbyterian Church there. You served with the Community Chest on the Distribution Committee of the Greater New York Fund, as a director of the New York Board of Trade from 1955 to 1964, and as a director of the Fifth Avenue Association. In addition you were a trustee of the National Foundation – March of Dimes – from 1960 to 1964, a member of Telephone Pioneers of America, and a director, vice-president, and general manager of Empire City Subway, Limited.

For these outstanding achievements, for your quiet generosity, and for your devotion to the College and your wise counsel, it is our honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

DELWYN JOHNSON WORTHINGTON '26

Some significant information about you may be missing or fuzzy, but one thing seems perfectly clear - you do not know the meaning of retirement, a state of mind and body into which you claimed to have gone in 1962 when you moved from your life-long home in Chicago to your wonderful desert outpost in Tucson.

The early reports of life in your new home high up in the Santa Catalina Mountains overlooking millions of acres and what appears to be the whole world below, of life spent almost entirely outdoors in your patio, garden, and pool, or playing tennis, handball, and golf have been changed to accounts of weekly directors meetings of American Atomics Corporation and the Union Bank, daily operation of "World of Coins," a business developed from a hobby, and your activity as radio commentator each weekday morning and afternoon. If that is retirement, then the current dictionary definition of the word should be changed.

After the month-long, first class reunion in the halcyon days of summer 1926 at Harry's American Bar in Paris, you returned to Chicago for a business career in public utilities with Samuel Insull whose empire barrister Ed Steel later took over as receiver. From there you went into investment banking and investment counseling. In 1935 you became a member of the newspaper advertising firm of Cresmer C. Woodward where you remained until your so- called retirement as executive vice-president in having been elected in 1950 as president of the American Association of Newspaper Representatives and a director of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association.

During your fictional retirement you have chairman of the United Community 1967 Campaign, general chairman of the Southern Arizona Heart Association 1970-71 fund campaign, and a director of the Tucson Heritage Foundation from 1967 to 1971.

While engaged in these civic activities you have worked for the College on enrollment, as secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Tucson, on the Major Gifts Committee, Third Century Fund, and on the Alumni Council from 1965 to 1968 and as president in 1967-68.

In lasting appreciation of these achievements and in grateful acknowledgement of your loyalty, leadership, and wise counsel, it is an honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

WILLIAM BURRES HEAD '27

The list of oil, gas, pipeline, and utility companies of which you have been president, vice- president, manager, or director reads like a directory of these kinds of businesses in the States of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In your present state of semi-retirement you have added some independent drilling development and explorations to the extent that you and a couple of sheiks in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia may be entirely to blame if a shortage of gas causes a complete shutdown of transportation and production. If a serious shortage develops, surely you will be able always to mine enough gas to keep your Dad's Root Beer sufficiently bubbly.

In addition to oil, gas, and power production and transmission you are a director of Employers Casualty Co., Employers National Life Insurance Co., and the Houston Kiwanis Club, chairman of the board of trustees of your church, and an active participant in almost all civic fund solicitations.

Along with your business and civic activities you have been a faithful servant of the College. For fourteen years you were Secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Houston, a member of the Alumni Council in 1955-59, a two-term member of the executive committee of the Class of '27, a member of the local executive committee of the Third Century Fund, and a member of the National Committee for the Medical School Campaign of 1960.

For this devotion to the College, and in grateful recognition of your continuing loyalty, we present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

GEORGE ILSLEY DAVIS '28

"Old and Tried" is the slogan of The Glens Falls Insurance Company from which, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, you retired in 1971.

"Time Tested and Proud Superior" is the maxim which your associates in business, education, and civic affairs would consider appropriate for you. And this can be proved.

You started with the Company in 1928 in the mailroom, held various financial offices and became secretary, treasurer, board member, vice-president, and chairman of the executive committee before being named board chairman in 1962. You are also a director of the Continental Corporation and certain affiliates, the Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co., and the National Life Assurance Co. of Canada.

Education has been your special interest. You are a trustee of the Albany Medical College and chairman and formerly treasurer of the Skidmore executive committee. You headed a successful campaign by Skidmore to launch construction of the New Campus in 1961 and now you are general chairman of a capital fund solicitation for $26 million to complete the New Campus.

Your Dartmouth service has been outstanding. You have been a class agent, a member of the enrollment committee, and secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Glens Falls. In 1961 you were vice-president of the General Association of Alumni, a member of the Alumni Council from 1964-67, serving as president in 1966-67. You were a member of the Major Gifts Committee of the Third Century Fund.

With abiding appreciation and in grateful recognition of your service to education and to the College, it is our honor to give you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.

WILLIAM TARBOX DEWEY '33

Five years ago, after serving as chairman of every memorable reunion since the tenth, the class of '33 designated you "Admiral Dewey, Commander of Reunions." To your first mate. Admirable Sue, they awarded honoriscausa, their Double D Degree - Distaff Dispenser of Distinctive Diversions at Dewey's Mills - in recognition of her most gracious hosting of the entire class during each reunion at your beautiful house and garden. In keeping with the tradition, you are in command of '33's Fortieth and it is appropriate that the College express appreciation at your reunion dinner in the presence of your grateful classmates, all of whom again say "well done."

About one hundred years after the founding in 1836 of the Dewey woolen mill at the head of the Quechee Gulf on the Ottaquechee River, you joined the company as assistant treasurer. In 1952 you became president of A. G. Dewey Co. and class treasurer. Nothing sinister should be inferred from this. It was just a coincidence.

For almost twenty years you have been a director and chief executive officer of the companies in the Dewey group and also a director of the Northern Textile Association. You had the courage to stand for election and became a selectman of the Town of Hartford. You have served your community further as director of the Woodstock National Bank and as trustee of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital of Hanover.

As chairman of the Hanover-Norwich area in the Third Century Fund solicitation you made an outstanding record. In the national standings your area was fourth in participation and sixth in total dollars subscribed. A brief consideration of this achievement leads to the obvious conclusion that this was indeed a remarkable performance by the people under your direction.

With abiding appreciation and in grateful recognition of your devoted service to the College, it is our honor to present to you the Dartmouth Alumni Award.