John C. Woodhouse '21 Begins Full Trustee Term

JOHN C. WOODHOUSE '21 of Wilmington, Del. (shown above, left, with Trustee Ralph W. Hunter '31), was elected to a first full term of five years as a Trustee of the College when the Board held its annual June meeting in Hanover during the Commencement weekend. He has served on the Board since 1960, filling out the unexpired term of Charles J. Zimmerman '23 who was elected a Life Trustee at that time.

Mr. Woodhouse, who was nominated by the Alumni Council to serve as a Trustee in his own right, is a leading research scientist for the DuPont Company in Wilmington. The holder of more than sixty patents in chemical engineering and applied biology, he played an important role in the invention of hydraulic fluids, automobile anti-freeze, Nylon, and Lucite.

Before joining DuPont in 1928, Mr. Woodhouse taught chemistry at Dartmouth from 1921 to 1923 while earningis M.A. degree, and then taught at Harvard where he received an M.A. in 1924 and a Ph.D. degree in 1927. He is an Overseer of the Thayer School of Engineering and a former member of the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 1957 and for many years has been active in the Dartmouth Club of Delaware.