Un Premio Espanol

A new prize memorializing an alumnus killed in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 has been established to honor, each year, several graduating seniors who achieve outstanding records in the study of Spanish.

The prize is named for Joe Dallet '27, who was killed in action at Fuentes de Ebro on October 13, 1937. Dallet had left college after three years to work briefly in insurance, as a social worker, and as a longshoreman, and then for several years as a labor organizer among the unemployed and among steel workers. When the fascist attack on the Spanish Republic began, he volunteered to fight for the Republican cause. He was commissioned an officer in a Canadian battalion early in 1937 and was killed while leading his men in an advance. An account of his death in The Lincoln Battalion by Edwin Rolfe (1939) said, "He behaved heroically until the very end, refusing to permit the first-aid men to approach him at his exposed position."

The idea for the Dallet Prize originated with and was carried through by Dr. Irving Adler, a Dartmouth parent and a distinguished humanist from Bennington, Vt.

The first recipients of the Joe Dallet Jr. 1927 Prize in Spanish were Robert Conn, Bess Michael, and Gary Portugal, all '83s.