1959

The College presented the class of 1959 with a 1997 special recognition award "for its involvement in community affairs" and thanked the class "for once more bringing honor on the College and for the impact it has made on others outside the Dartmouth family." Karl Holtzschue and all who have assisted him with 1959's "Dartmouth Partners in Community Service" can stand up and take a bow! A college professor and a weekly newspaper editor have received awards, and a busi businessman was elected to another company's board of directors. Bill Woolley, who is professor of history and Helen Swift Neilson professor of cultural studies at Ripon College in Wisconsin, received the James Underkofler Award for teaching excellence. On four separate occasions prior to this one, Bill received the senior teaching award, annually given by the senior class to an outstanding professor. On four other occasions, Bill received another award presented annually to faculty members who have shown the highest degree of excellence in teaching.

The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors has given its Eugene Cervi award to Cary Stiff and Carol Wilcox, editors of The Clear Creek Courant in Idaho Springs, Colo. It recognizes a newspaper editor who has consistently acted in the conviction that "good journalism begets good government."

The award is presented "not for a single brave accomplishment, but for a career of outstanding public service through community journalism for adhering to the highest standards of the craft with [a] deep reverence for the English language...," and recognizes "consistently aggressive reporting of government at the grass roots level and interpretation of local affairs." Stiff and Wilcox are the first couple to receive the award. They had been reporters at The Denver Post before leaving in 1973 to found The Courant in an old billiard hall in Georgetown, Colo.

The businessman—John Ferries, president of D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), an advertising and public relations firm—was recently named a director of First Brands Corp. in Danbury, Conn.

Three classmates say they have retired and a fourth says he plans to do so in the year 2000. Jim Wilson retired on the first day of this calendar year from Ford Motor Cos. after more than 31 years of service. He says he has been traveling a lot over the past five years and hopes to visit all of the lower 48 and Alaska, plus the Canadian provinces. Paul Egner Jr. retired this past spring from Shell Oil Co., where he worked for more than 34 years, the last 22 of which were in Houston, where he and Jane plan to stay. He also retired from his position as a captain in the Coast Guard Reserve. Charlie Mac Vean reports that he is in a state of "max happy" enjoying: San Diego since 1978, his children all being in California since 1990, grandchildren since 1994, and not working since 1996. In 1989 Jim Neff and wife Ellen moved to Virginia, where they both work, but Jim plans to retire in the year 2000. E-mail him at .

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Clear Creek Courant editor Cary Stiff has been honored for his RICHARD MASTERSON '59