George Barber Munroe ’43
George Barber Munroe ’43 died August 19, 2014. George grew up in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School. At Dartmouth, where he was a topical III major, he continued to excel as a Senior Fellow and a member of Phi Kappa Psi, Casque & Gauntlet and Green Key. He was also an outstanding basketball player—on three Ivy League championship teams—and led Dartmouth to the national NCAA championships in 1952 and was named to several All-American teams. After earning his degree George became an officer in the U.S. Navy. After a year as an instructor at Columbia he was assigned to the battleship Maryland in the Pacific theater. At Okinawa the ship was hit by a kamikaze. During the 30 days of ship repairs at Bremerton, Washington, George came east to marry Helen Taylor. After discharge in 1946 George attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1949. During that time he managed to fit in two seasons of basketball with the St. Louis Bombers and the Boston Celtics. In the fall of 1949 George went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Two years later he joined the legal staff of the U.S high commissioner for Germany and then was appointed a judge of the U.S Court of Restitution Appeals in Nuremberg. Back in the States George joined the Phelps Dodge Corp., became president in 1969 and retired in 1987. He is survived by his second wife, Eleanor, sons Ralph and Taylor from his first marriage and grandson Zachary.
