Class Note 1946
Issue
May - Jun 2019
Frank Guarini, former seven-term congressman from New Jersey, writes that he has been extremely active with building the New Jersey waterfront rather than practicing law. Frank states he is more active with developing his hometown and community of Jersey City. He is also staying active with John Cabot University in Rome, which has grown the number of students studying abroad and is strengthening its entire program.
The Dartmouth Alumni Council has expanded its study of my recommendation of increasing senior class representation on the council from three delegates representing all classes following their 55th reunion. Classes before this 55th reunion currently are allowed one delegate for each class. The expanded study will include evaluation of the composition of the board, no doubt with the idea of streamlining it in size while seeking complete alumni representation to make it a more efficient working body. To assist in my endeavor to give voice to our wartime classes as well as all other classes, I have submitted my name for a nomination to fill a vacant council seat this fall.
Our class sympathy to the families of the following deceased classmates, starting with the death on July 4, 2018, of our executive committee chairman Harvey White. Our condolences to Harvey’s wife, Judy, who accompanied Harvey at our many recent reunions. He had a wonderful sense of humor. When Jack Howard introduced our classmate as the Hon. Frank Guarini, Harvey quipped, “Does that mean that John Wolff and I are not honorable?” Another class leader, Thomas Hugh Gillaugh, died February 2, 2017. Robert Merrill Koons, a member of the DOC and Navy V-12, died November 2, 2018. Henry Huson Bush Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and active on family farms in Wisconsin, died January 19. John Bringloe Helsell, Th’50, an Orcas Island, Washington, native and member of the 10th Mountain Division in the European theater, died May 16, 2018. There was a memorable photo of a huge log too large to be processed at his sawmill that appeared in the 65th reunion newsletter. Waverly J. Ellsworth Jr., DMS’47,died October 31, 2018. Leon Norman McKenzie Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and member of the Navy V-12 program and Gamma Delta Chi, died December 22, 2018. Robert “Bob” Winter, who served in the Air Force during WW II and was an architectural guru and longtime professor at Occidental College, died February 18.
I hope I will have met ’46 classmates at the 250th centennial celebration at Lincoln Center on April 2.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
The Dartmouth Alumni Council has expanded its study of my recommendation of increasing senior class representation on the council from three delegates representing all classes following their 55th reunion. Classes before this 55th reunion currently are allowed one delegate for each class. The expanded study will include evaluation of the composition of the board, no doubt with the idea of streamlining it in size while seeking complete alumni representation to make it a more efficient working body. To assist in my endeavor to give voice to our wartime classes as well as all other classes, I have submitted my name for a nomination to fill a vacant council seat this fall.
Our class sympathy to the families of the following deceased classmates, starting with the death on July 4, 2018, of our executive committee chairman Harvey White. Our condolences to Harvey’s wife, Judy, who accompanied Harvey at our many recent reunions. He had a wonderful sense of humor. When Jack Howard introduced our classmate as the Hon. Frank Guarini, Harvey quipped, “Does that mean that John Wolff and I are not honorable?” Another class leader, Thomas Hugh Gillaugh, died February 2, 2017. Robert Merrill Koons, a member of the DOC and Navy V-12, died November 2, 2018. Henry Huson Bush Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and active on family farms in Wisconsin, died January 19. John Bringloe Helsell, Th’50, an Orcas Island, Washington, native and member of the 10th Mountain Division in the European theater, died May 16, 2018. There was a memorable photo of a huge log too large to be processed at his sawmill that appeared in the 65th reunion newsletter. Waverly J. Ellsworth Jr., DMS’47,died October 31, 2018. Leon Norman McKenzie Jr., a former Navy lieutenant, j.g., and member of the Navy V-12 program and Gamma Delta Chi, died December 22, 2018. Robert “Bob” Winter, who served in the Air Force during WW II and was an architectural guru and longtime professor at Occidental College, died February 18.
I hope I will have met ’46 classmates at the 250th centennial celebration at Lincoln Center on April 2.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com