Alumni Awards

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. This year six of the nearly 50,000 living alums earned these special accolades. Here are highlights from their citations:

Richard Dale Barker '54 Dartmouth Alumni Award. You turned your M.B.A.acumen to educational institutions and for the past 36 years (20 of them as business manager of public schools in Wakefield, Massachusetts) have shown education can pay in the very best sense of the word. You have served Dartmouth as class treasurer (Class Treasurer of the Year in 1970), every kind of class and regional agent, class president, and an Alumni Councilor.

Alan Richard Epstein '47 Dartmouth Alumni Award. You have been every kind of fundraiser, class agent, class president, enrollment worker, and Alumni Councilor. Many head agents embrace your credo: "I love being head agent because it keeps me in close touch with so many wonderful classmates." It is only proper that a father follow in his daughter's footsteps: Peggy '79 received the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award six years ago.

Joseph Anthony Grasso Jr. '68 Dartmouth Alumni Award. Phi Beta Kappa, English major, summa cum hunk. Rufus Choate Scholar, Harvard Law School general practice, associate justice to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. It is an isolated job; one can't be too much of a joiner lest it compromise impartiality on the bench. Happily for Dartmouth, there is no such dilemma, as you have served as class agent, on the executive committee, and as class and club president.

Martha Scott Hennessey '76 Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Your father's deanship brought you to Hanover as an infant; you later returned for an exemplary undergraduate career. Then you taught students in fourth grade through college, co-founded the Adolescent Self Awareness Program, and picked up an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. You have also been making: a difference with your class, as class and club president, secretary, agent, and Alumni Councilor.

Catherine Hale McGrath 'Bo Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Your career at Dartmouth pointed to great things: a superb violinist, English major, member of Green Key, sorority president, and cheerleader. Your commitment to others shows in your work as vice president of Marts & Lundy, specializing in environmental causes. It also extends to Dartmouth, where you have served:as class agent and president and president of the Association of Alumni,

Vail Kellen Haak '49 Dartmouth Alumni Award. An early chubber, you continue spending time on the Connecticut as Ledyard Canoe Club overseer or leading a DOC trip up Mt. Moosilauke. You have served Dartmouth in every capacity, from providing two graduates Kellen '79 and Amy '8o—to holding forth and putting forth as class and head agent, newsletter editor, class and club secretary, class and club president, and president of the Association of Alumni.

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