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Bill Davidow is a strong candidate for the class Stunning Achievement Honor: more specifically, he is the 1984 recipient of Dartmouth College's Robert Fletcher Award, which recognizes contributions to society through engineering. This award, represented by an engraved medal and certificate, is given annually in memory of the founding director and first professor of Thayer. Recipients are selected "in recognition of distinguished achievement and service in the highest tradition of the Thayer School of Engineering." Bill currently is senior vice president for marketing and sales of Intel Corporation, an electronics firm based in Santa Clara, Calif. He has more than 20 years of industrial experience in the fields of digital computers, peripheral equipment, and microelectronics and has authored numerous papers on microprogramming and related applications. He also has served on the boards of many other high technology companies, including Tandem Computer and Valid Logic, and has chaired a number of technical conferences sponsored by the Computer Society and the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. At Dartmouth, Bill graduated summa cum laude and with highest distinction in his major field of engineering. He received his master's of science degree from Thayer one year later and was named recipient of the Dartmouth Society of Engineering Prize, given annually for the best report on an engineering subject. In 1961, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford and lectured there for a number of years in the electrical engineering department. Well done, Bill!

Tom Schwarz is another recent award winner he has received the Alumni Award from the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Here are a few lines from the Council's citation: "You have been such a son-of-a-gun for Dartmouth, your family, your profession, and your fellow man (not necessarily in that order), that one is hard put to get everything into 2,500 words or less, let alone 250 or 25. Where even to begin? .... For your classy class you have been an assistant class agent, class agent, and head agent, class president, and newsletter editor twice, the second time being right now. . . . We honor you today not because you have invented a new wheel or changed the course of Madison Avenue advertising, but because of your steadfast, lifelong love affair with Dartmouth. No alumnus could more deserve an Alumni Award." Tom, I am sure all of your classmates fully agree with the spirit of this citation but will feel it's guilty of classic Anglo-Saxon understatement. Congratulations!

Over the summer I called Ted Spetnagel and asked him for some news on those yea-yea go-go aging A.D.'s. Ted kindly gave me the following tidbits: Hanny Mason has survived the recession in lowa and has seen his business head briskly upward. He has just built a new office in Des Moines. Rat Battles is enjoying the good life with his condo in Seabrook Island, S.C. This summer he took his family to Scotland to play all the Scottish golf courses. It is sad to think of Rat as an oldster, but apparently daughter Wendy has made him a grandfather. Brad Gorham is involved in Republican party politics in Rhode Island, where he is the house minority leader in the state legislature. Brad chafes at being consistently out-voted and describes his position as "like a admiral of a canoe." He recently entertained John Brennan, who splits his time between Vail and Nantucket, when not at work in Milwaukee.

I received a preliminary report on Bob Shirley, Dick Perkins, and Bob Macdonald's May canoe trip on the St. John's River in Maine. Correspondent Shirley reports that it was a great trip despite hitting trees and 25- degree nighttime weather, rain, sleet, and snow. The food and camaraderie made it worthwhile.

In closing let me remind every one of you that I would appreciate an account of the doings of your 50th birthdays, even if the event was not celebrated with something momentous like buying the Yankees.

Thomas H. Schwarz '57 was presented with the Dartmouth Alumni Award in June. He was cited for his "concern for mankind" and his "steadfast lifelong love affair with Dartmouth." Since graduation from Tuck, he has worked in advertising. He has devoted major time to underprivileged children and little leagues and serves on the board of directors of the YMCA. For his class he has served as assistant agent, class agent, head agent, president, and newsletter editor. He has been club president in Westchester, N.Y., a member of the local Third Century Fund executive committee, and member of the Alumni Council.

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