1949

Skip Ungar scooped me in his newsletter on the doings of the fall mini-reunion, but I do have the opportunity of reporting on his and Maury Cole's citations for the Gold Pick Axe Award. The following are some choice excerpts:

On Maury Cole:"... Your intellectual accomplishments produced great resultsnamed Jeff, Daniel, and Laurie. Also, they led you to a career in law as head of your own practice in New Jersey, where your clients included a horse's ass and a Slinky toy. In fact, but for your stellar representation of the grandma who lost a finger rescuing a slinky toy from the wheel of a car, the labeling of the toy would not read as it does, 'Don't throw slinky toy out of a moving vehicle.'

"The law practice is still going strong despite the fact that you elected to avoid representation of the big money gambling interests in favor of battling for the rights of employees in contract and wage disputes. . . . you have served as president of the Atlantic County Bar Association, as member of the Atlantic City Jaycees, the Atlantic City Kiwanis Club, the Brigantine Planning Board, and the Brigantine Board of Education. For an encore you have served as an elder of the Brigantine Community Presbyterian Church and worked with the people-to-people international program in Europe and Asia....

"Your Alma Mater can well thank you for dedicated service in its behalf as a district enrollment director from Time Immemorial and as a diligent class agent for the Alumni Fund.

"The Class of'49 thanks you for being our friend and with pride and respect we, your classmates, can say 'Maury Cole was a classmate of ours at Dartmouth.'"

It certainly seemed the Committee for the Pick Axe Award outdid themselves—in some years it is difficult to decide on a winner. So there was a second winner for 1991:

"... They say Skip loves history, although his own only goes back to endless years at summer camps and to Columbia Grammar School in New York. There he learned he should go to Dartmouth. At Dartmouth he learned he should send sons Paul and Michael here as well. Not bad for a guy whose biggest hit was 'My Teeth May Be False But My Heart Will Be True.' And then he wrote, 'l've Got a Mania for Manya.' All the while he and his brother Al '45 ran the family box business. . . . Skip does a lot of good, too. His work with the American Field Service International has helped bring over 30 foreign students to the States and sent many students from New Jersey abroad. Some of them have even come back. He works with Manya for both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and has been active in school-board campaigns. He calls himself 'America's Most Famous Unknown Songwriter.' We call Skip 1949's happiest camper. We're proud to say 'Skip Ungar was a classmate of ours at Dartmouth.'"

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