William R. Adelaar ’63 died on December 13, 2024. He ttended Harrison (New York) High School, where he was active in the newspaper, baseball, and tennis. At Dartmouth he majored in government and was the president of the Judo Club, vice president of the Flying Club, a heavyweight rower, member of the swim team, and brother of Pi Lam. A member of Navy ROTC, he joined the USS Atka in Boston after graduation. The Atka cruised to McMurdo Sound in Antarctica and Baffin Bay in Greenland and participated in an emergency resupply of the Eskimo village of Savigssivik, Greenland. Naval service was followed by one year at the Tuck School, one year at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and one year at a Chase Bank development program before he joined clothing manufacturer Adelaar Brothers. There, he became production manager, chief operating officer, vice president, and treasurer before the company was wound down in 1986. He completed an M.B.A. at Fordham University in 1972. In 1986 Bill formed a management consulting firm and continued as a private investor. He was a generous philanthropist and endowed three funds at Dartmouth for scholarships, books on military and naval history, and mountain and wilderness survival. He also endowed a fund at Marble Collegiate Church, where he was a member, and at the Naval War College Foundation, for which he was a trustee. Bill was a member of the Metropolitan Club and Explorers Club, and former director of the New York Navy League.