Valentine Rock Grundman ’54

Valentine Rock Grundman ’54 passed away on June 13 in San Antonio, Texas. At Dartmouth, Rock was an economics major, president of Bait & Bullet, and a member of the DOC. After Dartmouth he went to the University of Virginia Law School, graduating in 1957. After serving as a JAG officer in the Air Force from 1957 to 1961, Rock worked for the Federal Trade Commission litigating mergers and acquisitions, eventually serving as lead attorney advisor to a commissioner. In 1968 he began work for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) as government and business affairs counsel, remaining at Dresser until 1993. From 1978 to 1994 he was a member of the Business Roundtable staff committee on the environment and first chairman of that committee’s Superfund taskforce. Rock has also served as a member of the antitrust taskforce of the president’s export council, chairman of the antitrust section of the Dallas Bar Association, chairman of the committee on multinational corporations of the American Bar Association, and chairman of the committee on antitrust and trade regulation of the administrative law section of the American Bar Association. From 1979 to 1993 he served on the adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas business school while remaining active in the Air Force Reserve, retiring in 1992 as a lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1980. Rock is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen, and children Rick and Holly.