William Randolph Adams ’66

William Randolph Adams ’66 died on January 14, 2009, of pancreatic cancer. Born in Cleveland and raised in Cincinnati, he came to Dartmouth from Mariemont (Ohio) High School. A brother of Kappa Sigma, he majored in government and urban affairs but dropped out of the College and served in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Vietnam War. He finished his degree at Syracuse University and returned to Dartmouth to earn an M.B.A. from Tuck in 1974. He was best known in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, as the president and executive director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from August 2001 to August 2007. He led a major financial restructuring, increasing its endowment to $125 million from $18 million. Randy worked for a management consulting firm in Chicago before coming in 1991 to the Mercantile Bank in St. Louis, where he helped oversee the merger of Mercantile and Firstar (now U.S. Bancorp) in 1999-2000. Randy served on the boards of numerous St. Louis-area civic and charitable organizations. He is survived by children William “Duffy” and Jessica.