Class Note 1946
Issue
Sep - Oct 2018
Jack Howard, our recently deceased president, delivered a dinner speech in 2016 at our 70th reunion titled “We are a Class of Achievers.” He concluded his speech saying that after 70 years out, we, the class of 1946, can be proud of being in the “best” category of Dartmouth alumni. The following excerpts will explain why.
“Our gift-giving to the College Alumni Fund has been outstanding for the past 70 years, during which we met or exceeded our giving goal 20 out of 23 years during the tenure of Tom Adams, head class agent. The individual achievements of some of our classmates are noteworthy: an elected U.S. House of Representatives member for seven terms and a builder of eight high-rise skyscrapers in New Jersey overlooking Manhattan, a developer of one of the largest retail store franchises in the country (TJ Maxx), a co-chairman of the board of the nation’s largest accounting firm, a successful investment banker from Boston, a career-long infectious disease specialist in two major N.Y.C. hospitals with early involvement in the HIV epidemic, a humanitarian who cofounded a corporation that has built multiple health clinics in South Sudan.”
I will add award-winning authors and writers, a scuba diving explorer who added much knowledge of undersea life through photographs and books, a partner in a well-respected N.Y.C. construction firm, a Superior Court justice from New Jersey, and no doubt others requiring updated information.
One of the achievers is former seven-term U.S. Congressman Frank Guarini, who gave a gift of $10 million in 2013 to endow a new Institute of International Relations. Frank has now extended his gift-giving to include a $20-million donation to NYU School of Law to support the Guarini Institutions for Global Legal Studies.
Our class sympathy to the families of our deceased classmates Robinson Vohr Smith, Maurice Daniel Smith, Robert Patterson Mann, John Lewis Greisberger, Richard Andrew Kelly, and George Edward Young Jr.
On a personal note, I have recovered from surgery and am now getting back to my infectious disease practice while coping with the loss of my wife, Susan, who died from cancer on November 29, 2017.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
“Our gift-giving to the College Alumni Fund has been outstanding for the past 70 years, during which we met or exceeded our giving goal 20 out of 23 years during the tenure of Tom Adams, head class agent. The individual achievements of some of our classmates are noteworthy: an elected U.S. House of Representatives member for seven terms and a builder of eight high-rise skyscrapers in New Jersey overlooking Manhattan, a developer of one of the largest retail store franchises in the country (TJ Maxx), a co-chairman of the board of the nation’s largest accounting firm, a successful investment banker from Boston, a career-long infectious disease specialist in two major N.Y.C. hospitals with early involvement in the HIV epidemic, a humanitarian who cofounded a corporation that has built multiple health clinics in South Sudan.”
I will add award-winning authors and writers, a scuba diving explorer who added much knowledge of undersea life through photographs and books, a partner in a well-respected N.Y.C. construction firm, a Superior Court justice from New Jersey, and no doubt others requiring updated information.
One of the achievers is former seven-term U.S. Congressman Frank Guarini, who gave a gift of $10 million in 2013 to endow a new Institute of International Relations. Frank has now extended his gift-giving to include a $20-million donation to NYU School of Law to support the Guarini Institutions for Global Legal Studies.
Our class sympathy to the families of our deceased classmates Robinson Vohr Smith, Maurice Daniel Smith, Robert Patterson Mann, John Lewis Greisberger, Richard Andrew Kelly, and George Edward Young Jr.
On a personal note, I have recovered from surgery and am now getting back to my infectious disease practice while coping with the loss of my wife, Susan, who died from cancer on November 29, 2017.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com