Herbert Lewis Marx Jr. ’43

Herbert Lewis Marx Jr. ’43 died May 31. Herb grew up in Albany, New York, and graduated as an honor student from Milne High School, where he was on the school paper and magazine. At Dartmouth he majored in English, served as managing editor of The Dartmouth and was a member of Green Key, Pi Lambda Phi, the Dormitory Committee and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation Herb served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., London and Paris until 1945. He then joined the General Cable Corp. He stayed with them for 23 years, eventually becoming a vice president. In 1955 he received an M.B.A. from New York University. Through the years he served as an adjunct professor at Cornell, Rutgers and Pace and lectured at Stanford, Wooster and Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was an esteemed arbitrator for 37 years, serving on six presidential emergency boards and as founding president of the National Association of Railroad Referees; vice president, chair and parliamentarian of the National Academy of Arbitrators; and member of many national mediation boards and associations. Herb served as alumni councilor, class secretary, fraternity/sorority agent, leadership agent, class agent and class newsletter editor and as a member of the Native-American visiting committee and the class executive committee. In the late 1940s Herb married Hilda Fisher, who survives him. He later married Dorothy Sachs, who died in 2001. He is survived by children Jonathan ’73, Timothy and Alison and stepchild Tedra and their families, including numerous grandchildren and step-grandchildren.