Young Alumni Award: Ann Fritz Hackett '76

She was not only the second youngest Dartmouth graduate ever to become a Dartmouth Trustee (first was Sylvanus Ripley, a member of the College's very first graduating class in 1771!)— she was the first alumna to join the Board, and thus doubly unique. Winning began early for Ann. She was a whiz in high school and a whiz-bang at Dartmouth: Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in mathematics (she scored 100 on all of her tests, including the final in freshman calculus!); a Rufus Choate Scholar with three academic citations; a member of Green Key; a director of a senior honorary society and a dorm chairman; and she lettered in field hockey and tennis and was tennis captain.

Where does one go from there? She went to Morgan Stanley Investment, then to an M.B.A. from Stanford with recognition as a top scholar, and then to Strategic Planning Associates in Washington D.C., where in 11 years she became vice president and partner in human resources. Along the way Ann has been a leader in local school affairs, and in 1985 she received an Outstanding Young Woman of America Award.

Looking towards Hanover, she has been in continuous service: class treasurer, executive committee, committee for the arts, and Dartmouth Trustee for ten years, from 1982 to 1992. We can't help noting that for three and a half of those ten years she and her husband were stationed in London, but she missed only two Trustee meetings—and those were for the births of two children.

We can't forget too, that the Fritz family also sent Ann's brother Bill to Hanover to join the class of 1978.

She and Lance now have three children (the youngest 15 months old) and she has put on hold her strategic planning career (though still consulting privately) for a bit of strategic planning on the family front. Be it family or career, the College, or that flight to the moon, we salute her with this Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award, for all she is and all she has been to her alma mater.