Alumni Award: William Howe Carpenter '50

Bill's is only one of four or five Dartmouth families who have had three generations of varsity football players: his father, class of 1923, himself, and son Bill '74. But his commitment to Dartmouth has gone far beyond the football field, and since day one he has had other goal lines in mind.

After two years in the army he went to work in an uncle's freight and transportation company. Since then he has been a driving force in a half-dozen trucking firms, three of them on his own, and he has been at the forefront in negotiating grievances and contracts with the unions.

In the greater Chicago area, whence he sprung, he has given endless hours to chambers of commerce, community planning commissions, high-school boosters, churches, YMCAs, and union advisory and pension groups. For Dartmouth he has traveled the halls of Chicago's schools as perennial local enrollment director, sending talented students to Hanover, and more recently he initiated his club's Adopt-a-School Program, one of the first community service projects undertaken by Dartmouth alumni. Serving his class as head agent, class agent, and reunion committee member, he was also on the major gifts committee as well as the class executive committee. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity, he also worked for two busy years on the Club Officers Association executive committee, not to mention three years on the Alumni Council.

He and Terri manage ten acres in West Chicago, where horses, goats, and a multiplicity of dogs and cats and 16 grandchildren keep him happy and hopping. Beyond family, and all those animals, it's doing things for other people that matters most to Bill. That was his father's legacy to him, and, happily, it has been his to Dartmouth. He says it is exciting and a privilege serving his College, and it shows: his devotion to this place has known no bounds. We, too, are boundless with thanks and admiration as we present Bill with the Dartmouth Alumni Award.