The College
THE tragedy of 32 persons killed in an airplane crash on Etna's fogshrouded Moose Mountain in the early evening of Friday, October 25 was a shocking event for the College. Among those killed as the Northeast Airlines jetprop was coming in for a landing at Lebanon Regional Airport was Prof. J. Milton Gill, chairman of the Department of Music; Richard S. Searles '46 of Newport, Vt.; Dr. and Mrs. James Whedbee of Cockeysville, Md., parents of Joseph Whedbee '72; Miss Barbara Swift, 17, of Framingham Center, Mass., daughter of Robert B. Swift '49 and sister of Robert Jr. '72; and Prof. T. P. Nettl of Brighton, England, visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who was to have been the principal speaker at an Asian Studies Conference at Dartmouth that weekend.
Among the ten persons " injured but saved when the tail section broke off before the main impact were Robert Y. Kimball '46, Assistant Dean of the Tuck School, and Dr. Richard L. Veech of Oxford, England, who was coming to Hanover to give a lecture at the Dartmouth Medical School.
Dartmouth Outing Club members were part of the rescue corps that reached the wild and inaccessible crash site about an hour after the accident. Helicopters could not land and the injured had to be carried down the mountain to waiting ambulances. Hanover's Hitchcock Medical Center went into disaster action and was ready when the first of the injured reached the hospital.
