1942

You will have noticed by now that this is a "special issue" devoted to Dartmouth men and women who have made unique contributions to society. All class secretaries were invited to join in the spirit of this enterprise by devoting their April class notes to classmates who have made an impact, in their own special way, on the world at large. I agreed to do this a decision that, I now realize, speaks volumes about the inadequacy of my cerebral functions. With room to mention only a handful of worthies, I will inevitably disappoint several hundred confreres, not to mention their spouses.

Fred Brutschy switched chemistries early in his engineering career and helped pioneer the new industry of nuclear power. Over two decades he worked in nine countries in Europe, and in Japan, Taiwan, and India, training foreign engineers and helping set up power plants that made a difference in tire economies of large areas of the globe.

Art Cox, who died just a year ago, devoted his life's work and his writings to healing the wounds of one world war and preventing the outbreak of another one. He helped plan the European Recovery Program implementing the Marshall Plan, and later codirected a jointU.S.-Sovietproject (1985s-88) that recommended measures to end the Cold War, many of which were eventually adopted by Gorbachev.

Stu Finch, who had a distinguished career at Yale Medical for 24 years, has, with Pat, spent more than ten years in Japan conducting follow-up studies of the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His reputation as a researcher of radiation effects has led to key advisory roles in solving current problems arising from Chernobyl and the Bikini Islands test.

Tom harriman, working for Bell Helicopter as a project engineer in 1945, led his team to beat out the older Sikorsky firm for the world's first helicopter production type certificate in 1946, for the Bell Model 47. The production line ran for 26 years!

Ken LeSure taught history to 2,000 Sidwell Friends students before retiring in 1987. Despite a near-fatal heart attack, he has somehow continued, through correspondence, to keep track of about 500 of them, and especially of the 91 who later attended Dartmouth.

Joe Palamountan, with vigorous support from Anne, literally reinvented Skidmore over the 22 years of his presidency. In this monumental task, they had, together, a direct effect on the lives of thousands of students, faculty and administrators. The institution they shaped will continue for decades to affect the well-being of future generations.

Ad Winship, who died four years ago, gave 25 years of his life to maintaining and nourishing the financial welfare and, in a sense, the spiritual welfare of Dartmouth. He did this, in part, by honing to a fine art the various techniques of alumni relations that have kept the College in the vanguard of that crucial field for many decades. But beyond that, he genuinely loved his work, at which he was very good, indeed.

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Art Cox helped plan the European Recovery Program implementing the Marshall Plan. ALEX FANELLI '42