1943

In this issue, devoted to a celebration of athletics at Dartmouth, we salute all the men of our class who participated in individual and team sports with great skill and devotion, bringing honor to themselves, to our class, and to Dartmouth.

And...because he conducted his life with dignity, with grace, achieving much while also serving others, not least our College and our class...because for many of us he lived our fantasies...and because these words should be printed in this, the DartmouthAlumni Magazine, we here celebrate the life as we mourn the death last August of our classmate Emil "Bus" Mosbacher.

He came to Dartmouth from the Choate School, from which he graduated cum laude. At Dartmouth he majored in economics, was a member of Gamma Delta Chi, and as a member of the Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club, won the Intercollegiate Sailing Championship in 1941 and 1942. After service as a lieutenant aboard a navy minesweeper in the Pacific during WWII he returned to preside over his family's business interests. He married the former Patricia Ryan and they became the parents of Emil III '73; R. Bruce, Stanford '76; J.D. '79; and John '78. He began sailing off Long Island as a child. He won the Midget Championship of Long Island Sound twice and the junior championship. During the 1950s he raced the 33-foot sloops of the International One Design Class and won the championship for eight consecutive years. However, his success in racing the 12-meter sloops that compete for the America's Cup is considered most memorable. In 1958, slippering the aging VIM in a losing cause, he gained more acclaim than any sailor since Thomas Lipton. This led to an opportunity to compete in the 1962 races which he won in Weatherly. In 1967 he successfully defended the Cup in Intrepid. Named U.S. Racing Sailor of the Year in both '62 and '67 he was a charter member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame. He continued to sail late into his life and served as chairman of OP SAIL, better known as the Parade of Tall Ships, in 1964, 1986, and 1992. In 1963 he was awarded the honorary degree of master of arts by the College, and in 1969 the honorary degree of doctor of laws by Long Island University. In this year also he was appointed U.S. chief of protocol with the personal rank of ambassador and served until 1972. He held directorships in numerous corporations, trade, and charitable organizations as well as memberships in many societies and clubs. His service to our College and to our class was immense and continued throughout his life. He served as class president, member of the Alumni Council, worked on the Medical School campaign, received an Alumni Award in 1972. He was a director of the Dartmouth Club of New York and a member of the Westchester Dartmouth Club. He served as a member of the class executive committee, was a Third Century Fund Major Gifts member, a member Executive Committee Dickey Endowment, and a member of the Rockefeller Center Advisory Committee. Bus is survived by his wife, Pat, and their three sons, brother Robert, sister Barbara, and two grandchildren. We share their sorrow at his passing as we honor his life.

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In 1967 "Bus" Mosbajcher successfully defended the America's Cup in Intrepid. PAUL RANDALL '43