The Alumni Awards
During recent months the College's high honor, the AlumniAward, has been presented to the following distinguishedalumni, from whose citations these biographies are adapted.The Dartmouth family—and the wider world are enrichedby their many contributions.
Robert Lewis Kaiser '39 received his Alumni Award in recognition of all his contributions to family and friends, his College and fraternity, society in general, and educationl fundraising in particular. His has been a lifetime of enduring ideologies loyalty and integrity, caring and wit and wisdom. He began early: exemplary academic and athletic years' in high school and college (Phi Beta Kappa, a Senior Fellow, a Rufus Choate Scholar); a distinguished military record during and after World War II; and a shining 19-year business career. Returning to Dartmouth is 1965, he all but reinvented the Bequests and Estate program, which has become the model for other institutions, including Harvard. His lectures and writings on the subject of deferred giving have become bibles, recognized regionally and nationally.
He has worked hand-in-glove with four Dartmouth presidents and chaired the search committee for the most recent of the four. A proud achievement was the establishment of the John Sloan Dickey Endowment for International Understanding, made possible by a substantial gift from Sandy and his brother. He has been a trustee of numerous other institutions—civic, educational, medical, political, banking, youth. And he has been a driving force in the College's increased educational efforts to deal with substance abuse, making annual talks to freshmen on this subject. Sandy and Dottie have four children.
Frederick Brewster Whittemore '53,T'54, born, raised, and schooled in New Hampshire, has sp'ent his career with a single employer, the investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley. But his ties to and affection for New Hampshire and Dartmouth have remained constant. He has said that Dartmouth was a place that opened his eyes and mind, and, serendipitously, gave him a group of lifelong friends who have helped each other over the years in business, family, clubs and associations, and education. He has been a trustee of Kimball Union Academy, Pembroke Academy, and the Buckley School. He has been a manager of the Tuck School Association of New York and is now an Overseer of Tuck.
Bob has served 1939 as mini-reunion chairman, assistant class agent, and bequest chairman and was named Bequest Chairman of the Year in 1980. He has long been a deacon and elder at the1 White Church, and a frequent freshman advisor. He has been honored with New England's highest accolade for development officers, a Psi Upsilon plaque for "awesome advising," and the establishment of the Kaiser 1939 Endowment Fund. He and Evie are known as Mr. and Mrs. Class of 1939 in Hanover.
Norman E. "Sandy" McCulloch Jr. '50, former chairman of the Board of Trustees at the College, has always been a leader and mover and doer, a man of example and unwavering honesty and integrity, a fellow as much at home in the duck blind or trout stream as in the board room. A member of a Dartmouth family—father, uncle, cousins, brother, brothers-in-law, and a son Sandy was an undergraduate scholar and athlete who has served his alma mater as class president and Trustee, class agent and president of the Alumni Council, chairman of the Alumni Fund and the Campaign for Dartmouth.
Other assignments: Alumni Councilor, job placement and career advisor, enrollment officer, active member of the Dartmouth Club of New York, class agent, and committeeman for both the Third Century Fund and the Campaign for Dartmouth. Fred, not surprisingly, is' of a Dartmouth family. His father received an honorary degree, his brother, uncle, brother-in-law, father-in-law, cousin, and two sons attended the College.
David Thomas McLaughlin '54 exemplifies the "extraordinary chemistry that exists between Dartmouth alumni
and their College." Applying to the College in 1950 for "a broad educational training rather than a highly specialized one," he majored in international relations and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. He also played three sports (setting a total passing yardage record that stood for 23 years), served in Green Key, the Undergraduate Council, and Palaeopitus and joined Casque & Gauntlet and Beta Theta Pi. He won the Kenneth Archibald Athletic Prize and the Barrett Cup for leadership, scholarship, and character then won more honors at Tuck. After graduation and two years as a fighter pilot and while rising to the top ranks in the business word Dave McLaughlin's alumni service began in earnest: president of his. class and of the Chicago alumni association; fundraiser for his class, the Third Century Fund, and the Campaign for Dartmouth; a Tuck Overseer and chairman of that board; ten years a Dartmouth Trustee, including four as chairman, before his appointment as the College's 14th president. A few examples of his whirlwind presidency: two academic centers, a sports center, and three dormitories were built; the endowment was doubled; faculty salaries were raised significantly; the Dickey Endowment was established and Dave McLaughlin earned five honorary degrees for his leadership in higher education. Today this champion of liberal education heads the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Dave and Judy have four children, three of whom are Dartmouth graduates.
Thomas Albert Keller 111 '57, has been a member of a prominent Minneapolis law firm since 1961, a general partner since 1968, was chairman of the board of a local legal aid society, and has served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Minnesota Law School. His community commitments in addition to government, banking, and business organizations have included the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the Children's Heart Institute, A Better Chance, Chrysalis (a social service organization for women), senior citizens centers, the Minnesota Museum of the Arts, and the Minnesota Opera.
As chairman of the leadership gifts division in a $300 million campaign for the University of Minnesota, he helped attain $377 million, the largest such amount ever raised by a public university. His service to his College has included being the president of the Minneapolis Club and its liaison officer, the Alumni Council, class treasurer, and district enrollment director.
John Elwood Clark Jr. '62 says, "God made just two principal mistakes: He allowed for only 24 hours in a day, and He wasn't a great engineer of the human knee." This recipient of the Alumni Award keeps testing" the clock though his knees have told him to stop roadwork and limit himself to hiking. After his Dartmouth B.A. and a Wharton M.B.A. he earned a C.L.U. and has spent a lifetime in the insurance business. Now president of his own company, he has been active in national insurance societies and local chapters, Rotary, YMCA United Way, the Ridgewood (N.J.) public school system, and county health organizations.
He's an emergency medical technician and police ambulance volunteer, a certified wrestling official, and a member of a church, tennis club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club. A history major at Dartmouth, he's a Civil War buff who would go after an advance degree if there were time. Equally zealous about Dartmouth, he has served as an assistant class agent, head agent, and president of the Head Agents Association. In 1977 he won the Roger C. Wilde '21 Reunion Record Gift Award. An Alumni Councilor, he has been a class president, class secretary, and president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey. And he has contributed a son to the class of 1989.
JohnCarleton Walters '62 picked up a lacrosse stick for the first time as a Dartmouth undergraduate and started zapping in goals. He was All-Ivy in 1961 and 1962, All-American the same years, team captain and national scoring leader in 1962. A history major on the dean's list, he was also president of his fraternity and vice president of an honorary society. He married Nancy in his senior year, went to law school, and has had a long and distinguished career in corporate law.
He and Nancy have four children, two of whom went to Dartmouth. Service to his community and to Dartmouth has included bar associations, school boards, churches, a fire department, and a number of lacrosse clubs and teams—plus Dartmouth Club president, class officer and head agent, a recruiter, and winner of just about every Dartmouth fundraising award. He has also served as a member and then president of the Alumni Council.
