Class Note 1944
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Our September mini-reunion was very mini, with only 10 of us at the Friday dinner. We did make up for our small numbers in spirit and reminisced of past minis and missing classmates. Any subsequent minis? We will keep you posted.
We have been notified of the deaths of two classmates. Harry Russell Morse died September 26, 2016. Harry came to Dartmouth from Brockton, Massachusetts. He spent much of his childhood at a cottage in Lakeville, Massachusetts, where he learned to sail, fish, skate and iceboat. After graduation he joined the Navy and began his medical education at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he met and married Mary Elizabeth Pettit, a romance that lasted 70 years. Harry practiced medicine in his specialties, otorhinolaryngology and bronchoesophagology, in a variety of settings, from the academic Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania to private practice in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was a gifted teacher and was named a fellow of the Triological Society. In a final career adventure, he joined the U.S. Air Force and he and Mary lived in Bitburg, Germany, for several years. He was a role model for healthy living, playing tennis and skiing into his late 80s. He donated his body to the Geisel School of Medicine.
Alexander Loder Bensinger died October 24, 2016. “Buzz” came to Dartmouth from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and Peddie Preparatory. After graduation he served in the U.S. Army Air Force attached to the medics units. He obtained his law degree from Temple University School of Law and joined his father and brother in their Stroudsburg law firm. He practiced law until retiring in 2012. He was very active in civic groups in Stroudsburg, was Monroe County solicitor and lectured on law at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Dartmouth, as well as teaching adult classes. Buzz was a cofounder and director of Big Pocono Skiing and Camelback Ski Corp. He was a founder and officer of Stroud Shopping Center and Monroe County and Pocono Mountains industrial developments. Buzz was an active alumnus in many positions in the class, including with the Alumni Fund and on the executive and reunion committees.
We extend our condolences to their families.
—Betty Munson, 23 Linscott Road, No., York, ME 03909; elizmunson1944@gmail.com
We have been notified of the deaths of two classmates. Harry Russell Morse died September 26, 2016. Harry came to Dartmouth from Brockton, Massachusetts. He spent much of his childhood at a cottage in Lakeville, Massachusetts, where he learned to sail, fish, skate and iceboat. After graduation he joined the Navy and began his medical education at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he met and married Mary Elizabeth Pettit, a romance that lasted 70 years. Harry practiced medicine in his specialties, otorhinolaryngology and bronchoesophagology, in a variety of settings, from the academic Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania to private practice in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was a gifted teacher and was named a fellow of the Triological Society. In a final career adventure, he joined the U.S. Air Force and he and Mary lived in Bitburg, Germany, for several years. He was a role model for healthy living, playing tennis and skiing into his late 80s. He donated his body to the Geisel School of Medicine.
Alexander Loder Bensinger died October 24, 2016. “Buzz” came to Dartmouth from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and Peddie Preparatory. After graduation he served in the U.S. Army Air Force attached to the medics units. He obtained his law degree from Temple University School of Law and joined his father and brother in their Stroudsburg law firm. He practiced law until retiring in 2012. He was very active in civic groups in Stroudsburg, was Monroe County solicitor and lectured on law at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Dartmouth, as well as teaching adult classes. Buzz was a cofounder and director of Big Pocono Skiing and Camelback Ski Corp. He was a founder and officer of Stroud Shopping Center and Monroe County and Pocono Mountains industrial developments. Buzz was an active alumnus in many positions in the class, including with the Alumni Fund and on the executive and reunion committees.
We extend our condolences to their families.
—Betty Munson, 23 Linscott Road, No., York, ME 03909; elizmunson1944@gmail.com