Class Note 1946
Issue
Jan - Feb 2019
I have just returned from a stimulating and nostalgic 2018 Class Officers Weekend September 21-22 in Hanover, where I represented our class as your secretary and president. Our class was the oldest represented by a class officer. A central theme of the weekend was the announcement of plans to celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th year, officially taking place in 2019, and Dartmouth’s vision for the future. I expressed my concern at every meeting I could attend that weekend, including during a personal conversation with President Hanlon, about the lack of representation under the Alumni Council Constitution, which allows only a total of three representatives to represent all classes collectively who have celebrated their 55th reunions. All other classes from 1965 to the present are allowed one delegate to represent their classes in the Alumni Council. In order to follow through and try to make early class representation happen, our distinguished classmate Frank Guarini has nominated me to the Dartmouth Alumni Council to fill one of two vacant alumni-nominated seats on the Dartmouth board of trustees in June.
Class sympathies to families of deceased classmates and widow. Jean C. Davis called and informed me of the death of her husband, Paul True Davis, who died December 24, 2017. He served on a PT boat, was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx, and earned his M.B.A. from Tuck. He was an expert on energy economic research and taught at Dartmouth and Stanford. Rosemary Marlette, widow of John E. “Jack” Marlette and mother of ’75, ’84, and ’87 alums, died July 13, 2018. She was the first woman to serve on Nichols School board of trustees and chair of the board of AAA Western in central New York. She was very active in reunion and class affairs and named the Marlette Room at McNutt Hall for her deceased husband. Retired Marine Corps Col. Charles Hammond Bodley died July 11, 2018. He served with the Marine Corps for 30 years, since being part of its V-12 program on campus. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx. Walter Medley Wingate died July 8, 2018. He was a pilot with the U.S. Navy for three years, and at Dartmouth was a member of Casque & Gauntlet and Psi Epsilon. Joseph Bradley Quig Jr. died July 18, 2018. Joe was a neighbor of mine who lived on Midchester Avenue in White Plains, New York, where we both walked to and attended the Post Road Junior High School. At Dartmouth he was varsity catcher for the baseball team. He was in the Marine Corps V-12 program, and later retired from DuPont. John Horton Smith died September 9. He was in the Navy V-12 program, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and served as an ensign and gunnery officer in the Pacific.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
Class sympathies to families of deceased classmates and widow. Jean C. Davis called and informed me of the death of her husband, Paul True Davis, who died December 24, 2017. He served on a PT boat, was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx, and earned his M.B.A. from Tuck. He was an expert on energy economic research and taught at Dartmouth and Stanford. Rosemary Marlette, widow of John E. “Jack” Marlette and mother of ’75, ’84, and ’87 alums, died July 13, 2018. She was the first woman to serve on Nichols School board of trustees and chair of the board of AAA Western in central New York. She was very active in reunion and class affairs and named the Marlette Room at McNutt Hall for her deceased husband. Retired Marine Corps Col. Charles Hammond Bodley died July 11, 2018. He served with the Marine Corps for 30 years, since being part of its V-12 program on campus. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx. Walter Medley Wingate died July 8, 2018. He was a pilot with the U.S. Navy for three years, and at Dartmouth was a member of Casque & Gauntlet and Psi Epsilon. Joseph Bradley Quig Jr. died July 18, 2018. Joe was a neighbor of mine who lived on Midchester Avenue in White Plains, New York, where we both walked to and attended the Post Road Junior High School. At Dartmouth he was varsity catcher for the baseball team. He was in the Marine Corps V-12 program, and later retired from DuPont. John Horton Smith died September 9. He was in the Navy V-12 program, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and served as an ensign and gunnery officer in the Pacific.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com