To the Community:

Dean Robert C. Strong died suddenlythis afternoon at Dick's House followinga cerebral hemorrhage. This Collegenever lost a truer son or more worthyworker in her cause.

This announcement, in the handwriting of President Dickey and posted on the bookstore window, gave to Hanover on Saturday, June 8, one of the most stunning and universally regretted pieces of news that the College and town had ever received. Dean Strong had addressed a meeting of alumni officers in Baker Library only that morning, and it was while on his way back to the Administration Building, in the company of Dean Neidlinger, that he suffered the cerebral hemorrhage which caused his death a few hours later.

Dean Strong was only 43 years old, in the prime of his great service to the College as Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions. This office he had filled since 1933, following eight years as right-hand man to President Hopkins an'd one year, immediately after his 1924 graduation, in business. What cannot be indicated by biographical fact is the tremendously important role which he filled in Dartmouth's administrative councils or the even greater respect and affection in which he was held by all students, faculty, alumni, administrative colleagues, and townspeople.

In the fullness of his outside interests, Dean Strong served as president of the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts from 1941 until his death, was adviser to the Dartmouth Student Workshop, and also gave freely of his time to state and community enterprises. During the war years he had served as academic adviser to the Marine Corps detachment of the College's Navy V-12 Unit, and since the end of the war he had been under the heavy burden of the unprecedented rush of applicants for admission to Dartmouth.

Dean Strong's family, who shared with him the work and fun of developing Brookside Farm on Reservoir Road, includes his wife Dorothy, whom he married in 1930; a daughter, Elizabeth, 15; and two sons, Jonathan, 12, and Thomas, 7. Also surviving him are his mother, Mrs. William E. Strong of Newtonville, Mass., and two sisters, Mrs. H. H. Lounsberry ('15) of Newtonville and Mrs. Stuart M. Hill ('15) of Boulder, Colo. Dean Strong's father was the Rev. William E. Strong '82, long-time class secretary, who died in 1934.

A simple funeral service was held June 10 in Rollins Chapel, with burial in Hanover's Pine Knoll Cemetery. Bearers included Dean Strong's classmates, Clifford W. Higley '24 and Edward H. Learnard '24, and Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, Albert I. Dickerson '30, Sidney C. Hayward '26, Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23, Max A. Norton '19, and Virgil Poling.