Class Note 1946
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
By the time you read this column you will have received the 70th class reunion souvenir booklet highlighting all the reunion events with photographs of classmates and families as well as prominent renovation projects involving Baker Library and its tower and the Hood Museum. At the same time we will have entered into the second month of a new presidency and cabinet of our country and its multitude of challenges. We can only hope that the world will be less chaotic than it has been up to the time of submitting this column.
Out of almost 2,000 early-decision applicants, 555 students were chosen, making it the largest early-decision pool in Dartmouth history, up 3.7 percent from last year. This group now makes up about 47 percent of the incoming class of ’21; 92 percent of them are in the top 10 percent of their high school class. Mean SAT scores jumped 33 percent to 1,468; 31 percent are students of color; 8.3 percent are foreign citizens; more than 10 percent are first-generation college-bound students; and 16 percent are children of Dartmouth alumni.
It is always sad to report the loss of our classmates, but it is an opportunity to honor their memories. Our sympathies to their families. Lawrence Gove Doty died September 6, 2016. He was a 10th-generation descendant of Edward Doty, who survived the journey in 1620 and the first winter as an indentured servant in the Mayflower settlement; Phi Beta Kappa; member of the first graduating class of the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; retired from the U.S. government; buried in Arlington National Cemetery with Navy honors. Philip Henry Osberg died September 30, 2016. He was a member of the Navy V-12; was a second officer manning PT boats in the Philippines and Hawaii; worked as a professor and chairman of geology at the University of Maine with a focus on glacial and quaternary geology; published books, articles and geological maps; and contributed to the plate tectonic shift theory. Harlan Brown Brumsted died October 23, 2016. He was an ensign in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, where he survived two ship sinkings; earned a Ph.D. in wildlife management from Cornell; worked for four decades in undergraduate and graduate teaching as Cornell’s extension conservationist; introduced farm fish management programs at Cornell; named Conservationist of the Year by the New York State Conservation Council in 1991; earned an Exceptional Service Award from the Cornell department of natural resources and an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2003. Stanley Main Gates died October 25, 2016. He was a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force and a command pilot in WW II and the Korean War.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 1160 Fifth Ave., Suite 105, New York City, NY 10029; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
Out of almost 2,000 early-decision applicants, 555 students were chosen, making it the largest early-decision pool in Dartmouth history, up 3.7 percent from last year. This group now makes up about 47 percent of the incoming class of ’21; 92 percent of them are in the top 10 percent of their high school class. Mean SAT scores jumped 33 percent to 1,468; 31 percent are students of color; 8.3 percent are foreign citizens; more than 10 percent are first-generation college-bound students; and 16 percent are children of Dartmouth alumni.
It is always sad to report the loss of our classmates, but it is an opportunity to honor their memories. Our sympathies to their families. Lawrence Gove Doty died September 6, 2016. He was a 10th-generation descendant of Edward Doty, who survived the journey in 1620 and the first winter as an indentured servant in the Mayflower settlement; Phi Beta Kappa; member of the first graduating class of the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; retired from the U.S. government; buried in Arlington National Cemetery with Navy honors. Philip Henry Osberg died September 30, 2016. He was a member of the Navy V-12; was a second officer manning PT boats in the Philippines and Hawaii; worked as a professor and chairman of geology at the University of Maine with a focus on glacial and quaternary geology; published books, articles and geological maps; and contributed to the plate tectonic shift theory. Harlan Brown Brumsted died October 23, 2016. He was an ensign in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, where he survived two ship sinkings; earned a Ph.D. in wildlife management from Cornell; worked for four decades in undergraduate and graduate teaching as Cornell’s extension conservationist; introduced farm fish management programs at Cornell; named Conservationist of the Year by the New York State Conservation Council in 1991; earned an Exceptional Service Award from the Cornell department of natural resources and an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2003. Stanley Main Gates died October 25, 2016. He was a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force and a command pilot in WW II and the Korean War.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 1160 Fifth Ave., Suite 105, New York City, NY 10029; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com