Alumni Award: Frederick Lorenz Hier '44

The global journey that has brought Fritz's family to Cornish Flat, N.H., was likely conceived in high school where as class president he vowed to let service to others be his calling. Dartmouth, followed by graduate school at Syracuse, helped prepare him as a journalist, naval aviator, and officer of the Foreign Service and the College. He has been master of 1,000 ceremonies, 300 hillside acres, and ten miles of lovingly manicured trails.

Much of his early career was spent in service vice to refugees with the International Refugee Organization. As a correspondent with Radio Free Europe, he spent ten days under house arrest by the Russians during the Hungarian Revolution. He spent 18 months in; Vietnam as a U.S. Information Agency director.

campus firewood project for the needy. Meanwhile, out came his smoking typewriter. For 25 years he has been '44 class secretary.

In 1984 he began writing glowing Alumni Award citations. He has been the Class Secretary of the Year, editor of the 25-year book, and, as a classmate wrote, "he has been Mr. Dartmouth to us all." There are many more highlights: such as College boxing champion, honorary citizen of two German cities, and Tree Farmer of the Year. He raises Christmas trees, but never their price; he counts profit one smile at a time.

A final highlight for now. In 1986, after ten years of dreaming, he trekked ten days to experience, at 18,000 feet, a close encounter with Everest. He returned home fully charged and wrote his College a love letter. "Nourish your incomparable assets—the Outing Club, Moosilauke, and the Ravine Lodge, the College Grant, the full programs of Physical Education." The College listened. Indeed, it's a grateful College, a grateful alumni body, and a grateful class, that now rejoice as Mr, Dartmouth joins the ranks of the College's greatest servants by receiving Dartmouth Alumni Award.

"That's it. Blessings."