Alumni Council Honors 5

The Alumni Council recently honored five alumni for their service to the College. When Alumni Award recipient Melville Straus'60 applied to Dartmouth, he promised to do his "utmost to live up to the standards that Dartmouth has set." Forty years later the managing principal of Straus Asset Management in N.Y.C. is setting his standard: a gift that led to the College's Straus Dance Studio, chairing the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum board of overseers, and serving on numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Alumni Council.

Virginia Wise Wilkins '87 has earned the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. She has served as class president, agent, reunion giving committee chair, and mini-reunion chair; club president and vice president and coordinator of Boston's continuing education club seminar; and as Alumni Councilor and member of the Association of Alumni executive committee. Wilkins is deputy director of Harvard's development office.

For Gary T. Brooks '7O, life in the Upper Valley for the past two decades has been marked by work beyond the walls of his local law firm. This Alumni Award winner has devoted energy to the College through the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, the Protection of Human Subjects Committee of the Medical School, and the Alumni Council; to his class as president, treasurer, agent, and reunion chair; and to the community as president of Opera North and trustee of the Montshire Museum.

Computers came to campus when Jeffrey Walter Weitzman '85 was a junior—and that has made all the difference. A former lawyer, this Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award winner recently connected with the internet, as marketing director of Yahoo! But he has been disseminating information for years, to the class as newsletter editor, public information chair, and agent; to his club as newsletter editor and co-president; and to the College and prospective students as enrollment interviewer.

The Alumni Award is only the latest honor Joseph Deyo Mathewson '55 has received from the College (where he was Phi Beta Kappa, a Rufus Choate Scholar, a Reynolds Scholar for study in Italy, recipient of the Hall Award for excellence in journalism for his stint as editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, and a magna cum laude graduate with highest distinction). In between his work as a banker and lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he served the College as Trustee, Alumni Councilor, class president and secretary, and Tucker Foundation board member.

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