Members of the Board
The ninth in the series of biographical sketches of members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees follows:
WHEN he was elected a Dartmouth Alumni Trustee in 1941, Dudley Wainwright Ott '29 was one of the youngest men in the history of the College to become a member of the Board of Trustees. He is still one of the youngest men on the Board,, and also shares the distinction of being one of the "resident and respectable free- holders of our said Province of New Hampshire" who, according to the College Charter, must make up a certain proportion of the Board.
At present on a wartime assignment in Washington, D. C., as a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, Mr. Orr is in the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy Department. In civilian life, he is a lawyer with a private practice in the city of Concord, N. H. A member of the New Hamp- shire and American Bar Associations, Mr. Orr served his state in various capacities for a number of years before assuming private practice. He was Assistant Attorney General from 1935 to 1937 and a member of the New Hampshire Tax Commission from 1937 to 1942, being one of the youngest men ever appointed to the latter nonpolitical post. He was chairman of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission and has served as secretary of the Governor's Committee on Unemployment Reserves and, more recently, as counsel for the New Hampshire Division of the OPA: He is a director of the Mechanicks National Bank, a trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank and of Phillips Exeter Academy, and was one of the New Hampshire directors of the New England Council.
It was natural that Mr. Orr should take an active part in the public affairs of New Hampshire, for his affiliation with the state has been very close. The son of former State Senator Benjamin H. Orr and Carolyn A. (Dudley) Orr, he was born on June 9, 1907, in Concord, the state capital. He was educated in New Hampshire schools, entering Dartmouth in 1925 from Phillips Exeter Academy. Upon his graduation from the College in 1929, he left New Hampshire temporarily to study first abroad and then at Harvard Law School, from which he received his LL.B. in 1933. He returned to New Hampshire the same year to enter the Manchester law firm of McLane, Davis and Carleton, which is headed by fellow-Trustee John R. McLane '07, and remained there until his acceptance of the appointment of Assistant Attorney General in 1935.
During his undergraduate years at the College, Mr. Orr was a member of Palaeopitus and Green Key, president of the class of 1929, manager of track, and a member of Casque and Gauntlet, the DCAC, The Arts, and Phi Gamma Delta. He was a Phi Beta Kappa student and in his senior year was awarded a fellowship, presented to the College by Governor Redfield Proctor of Vermont, that made possible a graduate year of travel and study. Mr. Orr spent his year abroad studying history at the University of ClermontFerrand in France and travelling on the Continent.
In 1935 Mr. Orr married FlorenceGene Ward of Swampscott, Mass., the daughter of Richard Ward of the class of 1901. The Orrs have two small daughters, Marjorie Hall and Carolyn Ward.
