Alumni Award: David Hammond Bradley '58
A New Hampshire son, he has rarely been in the shade. He has been out front in all his endeavors as student, athlete, lawyer, politician, and community member.
A native of Keene and Swanzey schools, he was an All-New England quarterback on a winning Dartmouth football team, as well as a letterman in baseball, a fraternity and senior society member, and an NROTC scholarshipper. He shipped out for three years as a naval officer plowing the seas on destroyers. A brief period in the Dartmouth Admissions Office gave way to Harvard Law and a subsequent 27-year career with the Hanover law firm of Stebbins, Bradley, Wood and Harvey.
Dave has concentrated on litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, but there has been no disputing the fine Bradley balance between career and extra-curricular. He is a Rotarian, a leader of heart and cancer drives (he's bicycled hundreds of miles for cancer fundraising); he has chaired school boards; and he is a trustee at Cardigan Mountain School, the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. He fine-tunes both body and mind through regular tennis, the College's fitness program, a singing group, and teaching an ILEAD course. He's led Dartmouth freshman trips for the past five years.
Dave is also a leader in the New Hampshire Republican political arena. He served in the House of Representatives and three terms in the State Senate. It is not a given that living in Hanover means service to Dartmouth,but Dave's commitment to the place had been unstinting. He has served on his class executive committee and as a head agent; he has been a member of the Fund campaign, reunion giving, and search committees. As president of the Alumi Association 1989-91 he guided us through the first multiple-slate election process for Alumni Trustee; he has served on the Native American Visiting Committee, and he was a president of the Upper Valley Dartmouth Club.
He and Ann also contributed nicely to the class of 1992 in the form of son Christopher.
Family, college, community a fine troika. We think so, and we would like to show it by presenting him with this Dartmouth Alumni Award.
