Class Note 1948
Issue
November-December 2022
Our class president Bud Munson is doing well and handling all the details required by the College to sustain a class. Following are his comments on what’s going on at Dartmouth in Hanover. Utilizing land from the golf course approximately 1 mile north of campus, the College plans to build housing for 400 students, probably in three dormitories. This would not be suitable for freshmen, who need to absorb more of the college and town environment. It will require shuttle buses. Although Thayer Hall will continue to be fully engaged, the residential units will have kitchenettes available, which Bud says it is a trend in colleges today. The approximate $40-million internal renovation of Dartmouth Hall should be completed by your reading. The next major renovation in the same order of magnitude will be for Hopkins Center.
After 46 years as a coeducational college, Dartmouth has a new president, Sian Leah Beilock. She is a cognitive scientist with a strong administrative background as a provost and then as president of Barnard College, which is affiliated with Columbia University. She sounds like a great choice.
Alvin Everett Gilbert died July 11, 2006, in South Paris, Maine, we have just learned. Al joined the Navy and trained as a pilot during World War II. He studied at the University of North Carolina and Dartmouth (probably V- 12) and in 1950 graduated from the University of Maine, Orono. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture, serving 30 years, 17 as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service traveling and working throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia. After retiring in 1982 he returned to his hometown of Danville, Maine, with his wife, Jane, and family of five children and became actively involved in the nearby Auburn community.
Donald J. Graham Jr. died October 8, 2021, in Seattle at the age of 98. At Dartmouth Don was a member of Phi Delta Alpha/Phi and received his A.B. in 1949. In 1952 he earned his J.D. from the University of Washington. He is survived by sons Donald III and Frederick.
—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net
After 46 years as a coeducational college, Dartmouth has a new president, Sian Leah Beilock. She is a cognitive scientist with a strong administrative background as a provost and then as president of Barnard College, which is affiliated with Columbia University. She sounds like a great choice.
Alvin Everett Gilbert died July 11, 2006, in South Paris, Maine, we have just learned. Al joined the Navy and trained as a pilot during World War II. He studied at the University of North Carolina and Dartmouth (probably V- 12) and in 1950 graduated from the University of Maine, Orono. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture, serving 30 years, 17 as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service traveling and working throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia. After retiring in 1982 he returned to his hometown of Danville, Maine, with his wife, Jane, and family of five children and became actively involved in the nearby Auburn community.
Donald J. Graham Jr. died October 8, 2021, in Seattle at the age of 98. At Dartmouth Don was a member of Phi Delta Alpha/Phi and received his A.B. in 1949. In 1952 he earned his J.D. from the University of Washington. He is survived by sons Donald III and Frederick.
—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net