William Trout Wolf ’43

William Trout Wolf ’43 died September 9, 2016, at his home in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania (a town named for his great-grandfather). Bill was a cum laude graduate of the Peddie School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, orchestra, debating team and dramatics club and on the staff of the yearbook. At Dartmouth Bill was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and attended Tuck School. After graduation Bill spent three years in the Army “classifying and assigning personnel.” Back in civilian life in 1946 he joined the family business, Wolf Supply Co., as a clerk. Bill climbed the corporate ladder, becoming president in 1958. In 1947 he married Cornelia Westerman. Bill was a founder, and later president and board chairman, of York Federal Savings and Loan Association and chairman of the Lumbermen’s Merchandising Corp., as well as a board member of CTE, York Container Corp., Merchants and Business Men’s Mutual Insurance Co. He also served as chairman of York County United Way, the Penn State-York board of trustees and the New York Heart Association and was a board member at New York Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Crispus Attucks Association, Rotary Club, local chamber of commerce and school board and a trustee of the Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church. He enjoyed painting, mostly watercolors, wine (“mostly drinking,” he said), reading and sports. Loyal to Dartmouth, he was on the Dartmouth College Fund leadership committee and was an admissions volunteer. Bill is survived by Cornelia, children Thomas ’71, Andrew, Cornelia and Henry and their spouses; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.