Heart of Green

Alumni Award winner Ronald B. Schram '64 has immersedhimself in Dartmouth activities from Day One

For a Mid westerner who Had never seen Dartmouth until his parents delivered him to his freshman dorm, Ron Schram has, in the past 34 years, made great strides toward becoming the ultimate Dartmouth graduate. In December the Alumni Council bestowed upon this former Trustee a Dartmouth Alumni Award for his persistent dedication to the College and to personal achievement since his student days. A Boston healthcare attorney with three (count 'em) law degrees and a master's from Cambridge University, he has collected trusteeships and alumni offices the way he scooped up graduate degrees. As a Dartmouth student he was an economics major with distinction, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, a football and basketball letterman, fraternity and interfraternity council president, and a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key, and Sphinx—and he has yet to stop and rest. A Green worker in various club and class positions, he has raked it in as a fundraiser, served on the Alumni Council, and sat on the Board from 1981 to 1992. His current trusteeships include the New England Sports Museum and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and he played an important role in the relocation of the hospital to Lebanon. To top it all off he has put some of his own flesh and blood into the College—daughters Laura '94 and Alison '97. Schram has a reputation for generosity, and it's not hard to see how he got it.