Alumni Award: Robert Paul Henderson '53, T'54

It is highly appropriate that Bob received the Alumni Award on the occasion of his 40th Reunion. From an active undergraduate career to his postgrad devotion and service to Dartmouth, he has also been an unmitigated devotee of the class of 1953. He has been a class agent and a reunion giving chairman; he has played leadership roles in major campaigns; he was a Tuck Overseer for five years, and a Dartmouth Trustee for ten.

Then there is the family. Does anyone have a directory handy? Three sons with a Dartmouth B.A., and one of them with a master's in Liberal Studies; a fourth son with a Dartmouth B.A. who is also sporting a brand-new M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. One son lives in nearby Lebanon, and Bob's own second home is in nearby New London, N.H. Is it too much to say that the Hendersons have this place surrounded?

But Bob certainly has had a life beyond Dartmouth. After Tuck he served two years in the air force before returning stateside and joining IBM. He moved on to Honeywell and Itek, then decided in 1983 that smaller can be better and formed an eight-man partnership, Greylock Management Corporation. "Smartest thing I ever did." He calls it an adventure; for us, it's been admiration.

Along with his distinguished business career, he has been on more boards than there are in a sawmill: businesses, corporations, associations, banks, museums, colleges and schools, clubs, health care services, and Filene's Basement.

Bob is quiet and modest about all he has been to Dartmouth, but we were excited and outspoken in praising one of the College's and '53's stellar performers by presenting him the Dartmouth Alumni Award.