Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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A Message From The Class Chairman Born during the Hurricane of ’41; schooled in World War II; matured in the beginning of the Atomic Age; and aged in who knows what; overpopulation, starvation, combat—or peace, plenty and the good life. This is the Class of 1945. But the final history of our Class seems almost certain—when the 200th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case and The Tricentcnnial come around, there will be a few of us—maybe darn few, but a few—still here to represent the fighting ’45ers at those dramatic occasions. And well we should be represented, because ours has been one of the most unique in the annals of Hanover—no other class suffered the tragedies of war and lost as many members as did we; no other Class was as torn and split asunder as the Class of ’45, which had more non-grads than ever before—or since; and no other class picked itself up off the floor of bewilderment and confusion to mold itself into as close a unit as we have managed to do. There have been other closely-knit classes, but none that started behind the eight-ball, the cue stick, and even the pool hall as we did. From this disrupted group, we’ve produced not only captains of industry and medicine; college presidents and professors; authors, lawyers, and engineers of renown; leaders in the armed forces and government services, and many other successful people too numerous to mention, but also captains of Dartmouth as well. 1945 has produced Alumni leaders: National Alumni Officers, local club officers, council members, college staff and faculty, local interviewers, etc., etc. The Class of 1945 was the first (if not the only class) to put up a living monument to its deceased—the now famous weather post on the Inn Corner. In addition, it was the first to inquire and, for that matter, to press for improvement in the financial lot of our retired faculty and staff. Each year our Book Fund grows and is distributed to a worthy undergraduate; and while doing all of this, ’45 even managed to set some sort of record by collecting dues from over 400 members in one recent year! Jack Skaklc, ably assisted by many others, has done a magnificent job on this 25th Yearbook. They cordially invite you to peruse the following pages. Paul Caravatt, ably assisted by his entire Reunion Committee, and superbly back-stopped by Harry Hampton, has set up a fabulous reunion. They cordially invite you to sample its wares. And I, in passing the gavel to my successor and successors, whoever they may be, invite you to stay close to Dartmouth in spirit for the next 25 years, ’tho round the girdled earth you roam. May your future be filled with success, happiness and the wonderful, warm friendships of your fellow classmates and alumni. Eliot S. Mover Chairman, Class of 1945 4

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HAIL . . JOHN G. KEMENY To the Class of 1945 Fellowship: I am very pleased to extend warmest greetings and congratulations to all 1945 men on the occasion of your 25th reunion. Mrs. Kemeny and I arc looking forward to seeing many of you and your families for the June 18-21 meeting. Since your 25th anniversary coincides with the end of our Bicentennial year and the beginning of the term of the thirteenth President, I would like to ask your Class for an opportunity to sit down together to talk about the future of Dartmouth College. I would particularly enjoy an opportunity to speak to the last of President Hopkin’s classes at Dartmouth for an exchange of ideas. I wish you well for your important reunion and I hope that I may play a small part in it. Sincerely, John G. Kemeny FAREWELL . . . JOHN SLOAN DICKEY ’29 John Dickey became Dartmouth's 12th President in 1946 after a distinguished career as a lawyer and in the Department of State. During his 25 years at the helm, Dartmouth's total assets grew from $31 million to $196 million, while Dartmouth's endowment rose from $22 million to’ $145 million. President Dickey introduced the innovative Great Issues course, rebuilt the Dartmouth faculty, retaining and recruiting first rate teacher-scholars. Under his leader-shipship the Dartmouth Medical School was refounded and he strengthened substantially the Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering. Graduate programs were also added in other departments, while still retaining the prime commitment to first rate undergraduate education. New facilities created new program opportunities under the Dickey leadership with Hopkins Center for the creative and cultural arts, the Kiewit Computation Center for computing and mathematics, and Levcrone Field House for athletics. All of these achievements and many more made it possible for Dartmouth to gain national rank and reputation as one of the nation’s outstanding liberal arts institutions, and brought President Dickey national acclaim as one of our foremost educational leaders and innovators. 3

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THE CLASS OF 1945 We had hardly begun to gather when the war began to separate us. Acquaintance was beginning to deepen into friendship. But, for most of us, the relationships were interrupted—and, in all to many cases, prematurely sundered by that war. In more ordinary ways, too, though equally final, lime and circumstance have taken their toll upon the fellowship of the Class of 1945. Yet, in spite of it all, we avow our comradeship. In the greater perspective of time, we recall the joys, the struggles and the promise of those early days together. We can affirm with deeper understanding the fact that such comradeship is one of those imperishable goods that give to life its point and purpose. Those of us whom time and circumstance have spared for the renewal of friendship gather now, in solemn yet thankful recollection, to honor those who have too soon, we feel, met the final circumstance of life. Let us each, in his own way, in the silence of this sacred moment, join in the memorial to our departed classmates, May we so remember them that our own lives may be richer and fuller, that we may each realize more perfectly the value of comradeship in all our relationships, that thus we may honor and remember our friends not with our lips only but with our lives. 5reel ertLo(cl ’45 5