James Davis Elleman ’43

James Davis Elleman ’43 died February 19 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. At Dartmouth Jim majored in history, was a member of Beta Theta Phi and Sphinx and played on the basketball team. After graduation Jim served as a Navy commander in both the European and Pacific theaters and was present at the Anzio and Okinawa invasions. He was executive officer of the first landing ship tank to hit the beach on D-Day. After his discharge in 1946 Jim attended the University of Cincinnati Law School and went to work for Alcoa. In 1952 he joined Chemical Bank of New York, working there until 1964 as a vice president. He then became president of the Trust Co. National Bank of Morristown, New Jersey. In 1975 and 1976 Jim worked in the Ford White House with classmate Bill Seidman ’43 as associate director of the Economic Council of Wage and Price Stability. He later became a financial consultant, working mainly on bank mergers, tapering off his business career by organizing a small Canadian company and getting it listed on one of the N.Y. Stock Exchanges. He served on the Alumni Council from 1964 to 1972, was gift planning chair from 1968 to 1972 and a member of the class executive committee from 1972 to 1977. He was also a class agent from 1986 to 1988 and 1990 to 2002 and the president of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey from 1958 to 1961. In 1952 he married Shirley Nelson. They had two sons, one daughter and several grandchildren, all of whom survive him.