The Dartmouth College Alumni Award is presented to alumni who have demonstrated extraordinary service to Dartmouth and civic organizations in addition to career accomplishment. The Alumni Awards are presented annually to individuals who graduated at least 25 years ago. This year, Bob Conn, Class of 1961 and a long-time member of the Dartmouth Club of the Piedmont, was selected to receive the award. Following is the text of the presentation made to Bob at the May 2006 Dartmouth Alumni Council dinner, outlining his achievements on behalf of Dartmouth and the community.

Also, a link to a story published in the Winston-Salem Journal can be found here.

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On Saturday, June 24 the Club will sponsor a Habitat for Humanity building day from 8:00 AM – noon in Durham. No construction experience is necessary. The Habitat crew will instruct volunteers and provide any necessary tools. We haven’t done one of these days in a while, but the last one was lots of fun for all, so please consider getting together with other alums and spending the morning for a good cause. Afterward, we’ll go out for lunch and more comraderie. Mark your calendars now and email Betsy Booth Scalco ‘87 at boothscalco@nc.rr.com if you’d like to participate. More details and directions to the site will follow in emails.

Thank you to the following alums who sponsored a book for the Book Award Program:

Herb Nubel ‘52
Samuel Katz ‘48
Joshua Vogel ‘90
George Robison ‘56
Mike Ellis ‘39
John Hoy MD ‘93
David Sclove ‘67
Steve Buckley ‘63
Tom Harper ‘56
Clarke Church ‘49
Todd Hemphill ‘78
Betsy Booth Scalco ‘87
Tom Andrews ‘60

Thirty three members of the Dartmouth Club of the Piedmont welcomed Football Coach Buddy Teevens ‘79 to North Carolina for our annual dinner. The dinner was held at the football stadium at Elon University, and after a sumptuous meal, those gathered handled Club business by amending the constitution and re-electing our current officers. Josh Bloom ‘95, a former recruit and player of Coach Teevens, introduced our speaker to the crowd. Coach Teevens then took the podium and talked passionately about Dartmouth football, past, present, and future. He fielded a wide range of questions, and the crowd gave him a hearty round of applause afterward. In addition to the dinner and speech, the Club held a silent auction of Dartmouth memorabilia with all proceeds benefiting our scholarship fund. In attendance for the evening were: Betsy ‘87 and Mark Scalco, George ‘56 and Kitty Robison, Kate Tallmadge ‘40, Margaret Kantlehner ‘81, John ‘58 and Derreth Kavanagh, Ken Lundstrom ‘55, Scott and Joy Rankin ’98s, Nicole ‘97 and Jon Chase, Chris Rhodes ‘97, Alison Pope ‘97, Josh Bloom ‘95, Todd ‘78 and Nancy Hemphill, Bob Conn ‘61, Jack ‘41 and Penny Waring, Tom Andrews ‘60, Dick Whitney ‘56, Ros Whedbee ‘62, Zach ‘ 89 and Apryl Chen, Tom Tiemann ‘70, David ‘67 and Jules Hough, Lucas Nikkel ‘05, Tom ‘56 and Sandy Harper, and Geoff Scott ‘70.

Our second annual Dartmouth Club of Piedmont Book Award Program is off to an excellent start this year. The book award recognizes outstanding juniors in local area high schools for scholarship, leadership, language ability and variety of interests. The winners are selected by the faculty and staff of the participating schools. This year we are again presenting the Native American novel, “The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse,” by Louise Erdrich ‘76, who has autographed a collector’s item first edition for each recipient.

As of this writing, 18 high schools are participating, up from 15 last year, with the possibility of a few more joining in. The schools range from Forsyth Country Day in the west, to Wilmington’s Cape Fear Academy and Kinston’s Arendell Parrott Academy in the east, from Henderson’s Northern Vance High School in the north to Pembroke’s Purnell Swett High School in the south, and include all our target schools save three. Ten schools have already announced their winners, and one has already been presented. Twenty three club members have been involved in contacting schools, in classes ranging from 1951 to 2005. A more complete report will appear in the next newsletter.

You are invited to join the Yale Club for a talk by Yale Professor Paul Kennedy, noted historian and writer, the evening of Thursday, May 4 at the NCSU University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St, between Raleigh and Durham. Prof. Kennedy is best known to the younger generation of students at Yale, is reputed to have the longest student waiting list for his seminar and lectures.

Background and detail on Paul Kennedy is at http://triangleyaleclub.org/schedule.htm#KENNEDY. The event consists of a reception with cash bar and hors d’oeuvres at six, the talk at 6:45, cost $15. Stay for a dinner at the University Club with the professor afterward for a total cost of $47 plus drinks for the evening. Reservations may be made on line with a credit card at: http://triangleyaleclub.org/kennedy.asp.

Come see Steve Bachman’s model train setup in the Triad. More details to come!