The Distinguished Young Alumni Awards
The following are adaptations of citations presented to two energetic and dedicated young alumni during the past year.
Elizabeth Fauver Steuber '77
In the uneasy early days of co-education, Betsy followed her grandfather, father, and two uncles to Dartmouth. She and her classmates made history, but she made history of her own by becoming the College's first woman head agent, serving from 1977 to 1982. But being first wasn't enough—in 1980 she won her class the Charles J. Zimmerman Award for highest participation among younger classes.
As an undergraduate she made her mark in student government, Green Key, Fire and Skoal, and as a dormitory chairman. As an alumna she has been a club job development and career advisor, club secretary, vice president, and president. An Alumni Councillor from 1981 to 1984, she was also on the Presidential Search Committee in 1986-87. She has also devoted time to interviewing prospective students. She has packed more Dartmouth into the past 17 years than a half-dozen other alumni would in nine lives.
And Dartmouth is not her only beneficiary: she has been a Phillips Academy admission officer, a banker in Boston and Cleveland, a member of the ABC program, on a Cystic Fibrosis Board, and active in local politics and the Junior League. She also devotes time to her husband and adopted one-year-old son.
Geoffrey Samuel Edelson '80
A A math major, he was an active undergraduate, a confidant of deans, a fraternity member, and served on the Winter Carnival Council and the College Committee on Alcoholic Concerns. He spent a year at Thayer School, and then three years at the University of Pennsylvania working for a master of science degree. After a three-year stint in the "real world" working as an engineer in the radar division of the RCA Missile and Surface program, he enrolled at the University of Rhode Island, where he is within a year of his Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
He intends to become a fall-time professor, but his academic involvement is not limited to the engineering lab. All along he has been contributing heavily to Dartmouth. He has been class treasurer, reunion treasurer, a member of the Executive Committee and Class Reunion Committee, and for the past eight years one of his special pleasures has been interviewing prospective students. To top it off, he served as an active voice on the Alumni Council from 1985 to 1988.
While the paper trail to a Ph.D. is long and hard, he still finds time for raising funds in Rhode Island for young peoples' groups, notably a battered women's shelter. He also devotes time to reading, skiing, sailing, and numerous other activities.
