New Chair

George B. Munroe '43, newly elected chair of the College's Board of Trustees, may best be remembered by his classmates as the All-American, Phi Beta Kappa basketball player from Joliet, Illinois, who helped bring Dartmouth to the final game of the 1942 NCAA championship. Munroe, who retired last year as CEO of Phelps Dodge, was the epitome of the scholar athlete. After leaving Dartmouth, he worked his way through Harvard Law School, played for the Boston Celtics, and earned two degrees at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

The New York City resident, who still serves on the Phelps Dodge board, is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and president of the New York International Festival of the Arts. He was recently named to the board of the New York Times Company. Munroe has been a member of Dartmouth's Board since 1977 and was a member of the presidential search committee that found James O. Freedman.

The Trustees have a new member. Harvard political economist Robert Reich '68 replaces Norman E. McCulloch Jr. '50 as an alumni Trustee. Reich will serve a five-year term.