1954

June 1954: John Cunningham,Dave McLaughlin, RichardRogin, Phil De Turk, John Heston chosen to deliver Class Day speeches; Bill Rex shoots a 65 at Hanover Country Club, sinking a 20-foot putt on the 18th hole, to set course record; on National Armed Forces Day, ROTC Units march, led by Des Tiihonen, Pete Geithner, Dave Blacksher, and James M. Fisher;Bruce Classon awards Mandel Prize for outstanding work on comparative literature; George Robinson, Richard Watt, and PeterRobinson awarded Fulbrights; the Committee on Graduate Studies awards fellowships to Lo-Yi Chan, Wilfred Bryan, and Hsung-Cheng Hsieh; Skip Carey wins alumni skijumping trophy; Vaughan Monroe Orchestra plays at Green Key Dance; 75th Wetdown honors: Dave McLaughlin (Barrett Cup), DonSwanson (Dartmouth Cup), Dan McCarthy (Most Improved Hockey Player), Bud Addis (Outstanding Soccer Player), and Walt Clarkson (Long Distance Runner); Commencement weekend begins on June 11th with the largest reunion gathering in College history; the Depression class of 1929 convenes for their 25th Reunion; the Glee Club gives last concert of year featuring John A. Reed; Don Taylor receives Charles Prize in botany; seniors bid college farewell with Class Day pipe breaking; Roy Larson delivers baccalaureate, presenting the class of '54 with "one of the great human challenges of the day," the growing crisis in elementary and secondary school education (44 years later and still a crisis). Five hundred fifty-seven seniors graduate, with 160 receiving ROTC commissions, with 5,000 watching; honorary degrees awarded to Frank Kenison, George Whelan, Alfred Hunt, Lynn Fontanne, Clarence Randall, Frederick Alden, Richard Ederhart Adelbart Ames, and Albert Bradley (can you identify their fields and why they were honored?); with John Sloan Dickey's words of wisdom, we all go out into the wide world, some to further education, some to the military, and some finally to work. "May I speak this last word for all who served you here: There is no yonder point in any human venture beyond the reach of Dartmouth's teaching if you will but return to it and have it so, and now men of Dartmouth of 1954, as in all the years before, the word is 'so long' because in the Dartmouth fellowship there is no parting."

Have a good summer. If you have not already made Dick Lewis (Alumni Fund) happy, please do so.

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