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Following is the full text of the citation of the Dartmouth Alumni Council Award bestowed on Pete Henderson during Class Officers Weekend in May 1984: "Your service to Dartmouth, to society, to your community, and to your fellowman has shone throughout your life a significant candlepower wherever you have set foot. You started early: at Dartmouth you looked on Blue Books as blueberry pancakes and ate them up; you graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; and grind that you were, you joined a fraternity, you were a member of Green Key, several undergraduate councils, Casque and Gauntlet, and treasurer of the senior class. After graduation, you served three and a half years in the navy, seven years with a steel company, ten with a management consulting firm, and then ten years as an administrator at Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management. Evenings and weekends were devoted to a never-ending list of civic responsibilities and organizations. If you had been paid for volunteer work, you could today practically pay off the national debt.

"All this while, you had one foot in Hanover and Dartmouth on your mind. With a '16 father and an '82 son, you served as secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Wisconsin, director of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago, class treasurer, an enrollment worker, assistant class agent, Third Century Fund committeeman, chairman of leadership gifts for the Campaign for Dartmouth, and in 1981 you were elected class president. Whew!

"All these years, too, your heart and mind were occupied with the problems of urban America, what you called your 'extra curriculum,' and your concerns have ever been with the underprivileged. In 1981 you left Northwestern to become executive director of Chicago United, a consortium of some 50 leading black, white, and Hispanic business executives and professional people concerned with economic and social problems of the city jobs, schools, housing, and economic development. You have said that your cup runneth over; well, if it weren't for you and Chicago United, a lot of cups wouldn't be runneth-ing at all. It is, then, with pride and pleasure that we bestow upon you this Alumni Award in recognition of a rich life dedicated to those less fortunate, and to your alma mater."

It has come to my attention that several classmates work for foundations in both professional and voluntary capacities. If each one of you would give me a little idea of what both you and the foundation do, I would like to run a series on the subject. If the doers are a little "too humble" to write about it, maybe a friend or the foundation itself could send it to me.

Chalk up another successful '5l mini-reunion this time in San Francisco over the weekend of September 15. Pete Henderson reported a good mix of great weather, lively action, good food, scenic sites, interesting places, great companionship, and all sorts of socializing and warm feelings. In attendance were Suzanne and Tom Barnett, Nellen Boardman, Shirley and Pete Bogardus, Jean Bowler, John Bransten, Kathy and Jim Danaher, Carol and John Hatfield, Jean and Pete Henderson, Rosina and Pierce McKee, Wes Nutten, Norma and Bill Rugg and Mary and Bob Tomfohrde.

After the executive committee meeting at Pete Bozardus's lovely home in Mill Valley, the group enjoyed a nice picnic lunch at John Bransten's delightfully scenic home in Napa. The evening fare included cocktails and dinner at the "Old Poodle Dog," a San Francisco landmark recently restored, situated in the new Crocker Bank Building.

Hope to see everyone at the next mini-reunion in Hanover over Harvard weekend on October 20.

Have a good autumn season.

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