Class Note 1946
Issue
Jul - Aug 2017
The greatest class of the greatest generation continues to demonstrate that life in our nonagenarian years can still be exciting and productive. There is no better example than our classmate Frank Guarini, former seven-term U.S. House of Representatives member. Frank has committed $10 million to support Dartmouth’s off-campus and foreign study programs, adding to an earlier commitment of $10 million for a total endowment commitment of $20 million to the Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education. The institute has offered more than 600 Dartmouth undergraduates 40 off-campus venues in 29 countries through Dartmouth language study abroad (LSA), foreign study and exchange programs.
The LSA was first introduced in 1967 by the popular, flamboyant professor John Rassias, who was an honorary member of the class of 1949. It was therefore very timely that my wife, Susan, and I have just returned from a weekend in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, celebrating the marriage of Jim Citron ’86, who runs the Rassias English teaching program for Mexican teachers, and Laura Gonzales, an English supervising teacher in Mexico. They met after she enrolled in the Rassias program at Dartmouth. A large Mexican contingent attended the wedding as well as at least half a dozen Dartmouth alumni. The gracious hosts were Jim’s parents, Ellen and John Citron ’57.
Norm Weissman has been honored by the Yale Film Study Center, which is archiving and making available for study by students and scholars 16 of his documentaries and TV films.
Molly Schue, widow of Edward Schue, is heading for Cliff Island, Maine, where she will spend four months with her family.
Our class sympathies to the families of our recently deceased classmates. Dewitt Clinton Baker died earlier this year. I first met “Bud” when I played tennis doubles against him and his partner, Al Holmes (deceased),representing Bronxville High School, while I played for White Plains High School. Bud was class treasurer and member of our class executive committee, involved in the Navy V-12 program and served in the Pacific theater during WW II. He had a distinguished career in the book publishing business. Paul Edward Lacke died December 30, 2016. He joined the Navy in 1944, served as an ensign and then earned his B.S. and M.S. from Thayer in June 1946. He worked in executive engineering positions at various steel firms. Eugene Bronstein died March 5. After joining through the Navy V-12 program he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1948 and had a well-respected career as a retailer, teacher and mentor.
—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
The LSA was first introduced in 1967 by the popular, flamboyant professor John Rassias, who was an honorary member of the class of 1949. It was therefore very timely that my wife, Susan, and I have just returned from a weekend in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, celebrating the marriage of Jim Citron ’86, who runs the Rassias English teaching program for Mexican teachers, and Laura Gonzales, an English supervising teacher in Mexico. They met after she enrolled in the Rassias program at Dartmouth. A large Mexican contingent attended the wedding as well as at least half a dozen Dartmouth alumni. The gracious hosts were Jim’s parents, Ellen and John Citron ’57.
Norm Weissman has been honored by the Yale Film Study Center, which is archiving and making available for study by students and scholars 16 of his documentaries and TV films.
Molly Schue, widow of Edward Schue, is heading for Cliff Island, Maine, where she will spend four months with her family.
Our class sympathies to the families of our recently deceased classmates. Dewitt Clinton Baker died earlier this year. I first met “Bud” when I played tennis doubles against him and his partner, Al Holmes (deceased),representing Bronxville High School, while I played for White Plains High School. Bud was class treasurer and member of our class executive committee, involved in the Navy V-12 program and served in the Pacific theater during WW II. He had a distinguished career in the book publishing business. Paul Edward Lacke died December 30, 2016. He joined the Navy in 1944, served as an ensign and then earned his B.S. and M.S. from Thayer in June 1946. He worked in executive engineering positions at various steel firms. Eugene Bronstein died March 5. After joining through the Navy V-12 program he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1948 and had a well-respected career as a retailer, teacher and mentor.
—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