Memorial Scholarship Honors Bill Remsen '43

From Martin J. Remsen '14, uncle of William Clinton Story Remsen '43, Dartmouth College has received a gift of $2,500 to establish a fund to be known as the William Clinton Story Remsen Memorial Scholarship Fund. The outright gift will be further supplemented by provisions in the wills of Martin Remsen and his wife. In addition a group of Bill Remsen's friends have organized to seek contributions to the Fund from those who knew him in the various fields in which he was engaged.

Bill Remsen's tragic early death last February brought to a close a full and happy life, in which love of quiet learning, of active sport, conscientious loyalty to his job and devotion to his friends held equal place. Bill came to Dartmouth, in the words of one of his friends, a "courteous, modest boy, refreshing to meet." He became president of his class in sophomore and junior years, an honor student, a letterman in hockey and golf, a Senior Fellow, and president of Green Key. After serving as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, he took his law degree at Columbia in 1948 and was on the legal staff of Johnson & Johnson at the time of his death.

The basis of awarding the Remsen Memorial Scholarship has been only tentatively formulated, but it speaks fully to those who held Bill Remsen in admiration and esteem: "For a needy boy who most personifies the ideals and attributes that Bill had...."