1975 Recipients
Margaret Stevenson Briles
Class Year: 1946
Outstanding Alumni Award Winner 1975
Corporation counsel for the City of Davenport, Iowa, Margaret Stevenson Briles served the same law firm both as an associate and partner from 1948 to 1975. She was admitted to the bar in 1948, a time when very few women practiced law. Many regarded her as a lawyer of unusual talents. Known professionally as Margaret Stevenson, she held the Martindale-Hubbel rating of valorem, the highest possible rank in legal listings. She is listed in the first and second editions of Who’s Who in American Women, and at one time was voted Woman of the Year for the tri-cities of Moline and Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa.
Carl C. Gamertsfelder
Class Year: 1935
Outstanding Alumni Award Winner 1975
Carl Gamertsfelder was present at the launch of three of the world’s first four nuclear reactors. He later served as manager of nuclear safety and technologies in General Electric’s Missile and Space Division. Gamertsfelder was moved to the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Department of General Electric in 1952, serving as a consulting physicist. In 1961, he returned to the Hanford Laboratories as a consulting radiological scientist. Gamertsfelder was a member of numerous societies and was listed in “American Men of Science.” He wrote and published a number of technical papers and classified documents for the Atomic Energy Commission.
Harold White
Class Year: 1935
Outstanding Alumni Award Winner 1975
Harold White and Gordon Haist ’32 pooled their resources to purchase the Naperville Sun – a fledgling weekly newspaper – in 1936. Haist left the newspaper in 1937 and, that same year, Harold and Eva Anderson ’35 were married. Over the ensuing 46 years, they worked together to build the Naperville Sun into one of the leading community newspapers in Illinois. In addition to providing Naperville with its only community newspaper, Harold and Eva White gave leadership and assistance in numerous civic affairs. In 1983, North Central College dedicated the College Union as the Harold and Eva White Activities Center in their honor. In 1991, white became an honorary member of the College’s Board of Trustees.