Modern Suitcase

In 1931, Theodore Cart' 20, President of the Atlantic Products Corp., transformed the luggage industry when he devised the Val-A-Pak-a lightweight, folding suitcase designed to prevent clothes from wrinkling, The idea took off during World War II, when wrinke-averse soldiers began traveling in unprecedented numbers, The New York Times gushed that "Cart has revolutionized travel for the average American and, in him, we witness the embodiment of a new concept of luggage that threatens to change travel habits."

Another invention by Cart and his company: the zipper kit bag, which sold in the millions after the war.

With a Dartmouth man's inventins, America's clothing came to grips with it's wrinkles.

Intensive Care Until Bill Mosenthal '38 conceived and estab lished the first intensive-care unit at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in 1955, no one had thought of putting a hospital's most serious cases near each other so that nurses and physicians could work more efficiently. When the hospital relocated from Hanover to Lebanon,.it paid a fitting tribute to Dr. Mosenthal by naming the newly constructed ICU after him.