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Honors for Six Special Alums

How do you recognize the prodigious contributions of alumni who really really stay in touch with the College ? You give them the Dartmouth Alumni Award or if they haven't yet earned any gray hairs in the outside world the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. In a big year maybe a dozen of the nearly 50,000 living alums earn this special accolade. Here are the most recent half-dozen, with highlights from their citations:

Stephen Adnopoz '78 With a J.D. from UVA. Steve is a financial and tax expert with a New York law firm. Father of three, he coaches youth-league soccer and is a skier. He was a wrestler at Dartmouth, managing editor of the D. and a member of Kappa Sigma and C & G. Now president of his class and president of the Class Presidents Association, Steve has been a head agent, minireunion chairman, enrollment worker, and recipient of his class's special award.

Emily Bakemeier '82 A past president of the Alumni Council the youngest ever in its 82-year history Emily worked fulltime for the College after graduation, in the dean's office and alumni affairs. Now she works at Princeton, where she's also a Ph.D. candidate. Parttime, she has been a class agent, 1982's first secretary, a district enrollment director, a leadership agent, and more. Captain of Dartmouth's women's Soccer team. Emily graduated cum faude.

Robert Danziger '56, Tuck '57 Following his M.B.A. from Tuck and a tour with the U.S. Army, Bob was an executive with two national consumer marketing firms, then founded his own investment-real estate-management company in 1970. He has been active on the boards of several hospitals, including Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a Tuck overseer, national giving chairman, member of the Alumni Council, and a distinguished two-term Dartmouth Trustee. Daughter Joan '81 and son Bruce '83 attended the College.

Asaph Hall '55, Tuck/Thayer '56 Phi Bete and summa cum laude, fraternity president, interfratemity council president. Green lieutenant in ordnance, Westinghouse sales management, U.S. Department of Transportation (railroad division). General Dynamics. Brookings Institute fellow, chairman of the hoard of Elmira College's trustees. Plus class agent, class vice president and president, club officer, fundraiser, president of the Association of Alumni, Alumni Councillor.

Gerald Kaminsky '51 Phi Bete, with citations in histoiy, math and government, Gerald earned an M.B.A. at Harvard and even helped their b-school raise funds. But this specialist in money management and investment portfolios has helped Dartmouth more: class agent, assistant head agent, reunion giving chair, leadership chair, major gifts chair, advisor on Jewish life, class president and Class President of the Year, Alumni Councillor.

Eugene Kohn '60 Phi Bete, suramacum laude, and a Rufus Choate scholar, Gene has been a Club officer, class agent, class president, newsletter editor for 15 years and Newletter Editor of the Year. He founded Hanover Advertising as a junior, worked in advertising in New York, and for three decades has been an entrepreneur in a variety of businesses mostly in Massachusetts. For the past ten years he has been a co-owner of a co-op The Dartmouth Co-op.

Reminder:

The Executive Committee of the Alumni Council will hold its fall meeting on FridaySunday, December 1-3, 1995; originally the meeting was scheduled to begin a day earlier, on November 30, and end on Saturday. The shift is designed to reduce councillors' time away from work and take advantage of lower air fares associated with a Saturday sleep-over.

Another reminder: You can e-mail D-MAIL with queries and contributions. The address is Or write care of the magazine.

Council Prexy Joel Leavitt '50 recognizes the achievements of his predecessor, Emily Bakemeier '82.