Alumni Award: Stephen L. Waterhouse '65, T'68

Most of us have done our share of commuting over the years, but not many can say that our home address is in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the office is just around the corner in London, England. Make that offices—Steve also pays rent in New York, Zurich, Boston, and Tokyo. He has flown the Atlantic at least once a month every year for the past two decades, enough frequent flyer miles to get him a free ride to Mars on a space shuttle.

After an 18-year international business career, he decided in 1985 that Steve Waterhouse would do just as well working for Steve Waterhouse, thank you. He founded Hanover Partners, and he's been on the go ever since as an independent recruiter (for executive searches), consultant, and financial-services specialist. With a worldwide reputation, he is tops in the field.

Nothing, however, can top his long and devoted association with Dartmouth. His debt to the College has long since been repaid. He has been an enrollment worker, a member of the Alumni Council, and a leadership agent. And he has held just about every class position available: chairman of the Tenth and 25th Reunions, treasurer of the Fifth, class president, class agent and head agent, class treasurer, class executive committee member, and one-of-a-kind class project chairman. At Class Officers Weekend in May he became president of the Class Treasurers Association.

He was a chemistry major in college, but he's used some sort of alchemy to make the class of 1965 a model for class activity. The class has sponsored a memorial book program and funded a cabin at Aloosilauke; he has benefited Native Americans at Dartmouth by enlarging libraries and awarding prizes for outstanding scholarship and community service; he has purchased books on the Dartmouth College Case and established a fund to restore Webster's letters and documents; and there are plans for the establishment of a Class of 1965 Room in the refurbished Webster Hall.

He is a Renaissance man, a collector of thoughts, books, memorabilia, and plaudits; a purveyor of ideas; a man of action and high ethics; a skier par excellence and lover of the outdoors; and a thorough family man (with wife Linda and children James and Melinda '92). Steve Waterhouse helps make Dartmouth the special place it is, and we rejoice to honor him with its Alumni Award.