Student Leader Succumbs to Pneumonia

The College received another great shock on March 14, when it awoke to learn that Robert Henry Michelet '34, outstanding scholar, athlete, and student administrator, had passed away at Dick's House in the early morning hours, after a two weeks battle against pneumonia. Hailed by common consent as Dartmouth's foremost undergraduate, Bob Michelet had received every campus honor which his fellow students had it in their power to bestow, and his ability and character had been recognized beyond Hanover in his selection as a Rhodes Scholar who would have begun his studies at Oxford next fall.

With a heavy heart, the College paid highest tribute to Michelet in death as it had in life. For two hours on the afternoon of March 15, students, faculty members and townspeople slipped quietly into Rollins Chapel to pay silent homage to the student leader, whose body lay at the altar in an unopened casket covered with the Dartmouth flag and surrounded by the floral tributes of many friends. The stillness of the Chapel, which was dimly lighted with candles, was broken only by the organ music played throughout the two-hour period.