1940

Stetson Whitcher, the quintessential '40, tells this tale: "Since 1965 one of my Dartmouth projects has been the support of continuing education, more specifically Alumni College, which I have attended for some 39 years. A part of this support was in the establishment of the Rudolf and Barbara Horky Fund for Continuing Education. In our freshman year a group of us '4Os—Rudy and I and, to the best of my memory, Herb Heaton and Roscoe Giles—used to take walks. After his sophomore year Rudy left Dartmouth and got his degree from Northwestern.

'Anyway, I got Rudy interested, and he announced to Barb, his wife, that he was going to attend. Her reaction was, 'Rudy, you won't know anyone there.' His response was 'Yes. I will know Stet Whitcher.' So at the opening reception in the presidents garden I got a tap on the shoulder; it was Rudy, and we recognized each other immediately. Rudy and Barb came to Alumni College for a decade before he was taken with cancer, but in that interim they gave back more to the program than they received. Rudy also was honored by a tree given to the College for his work with the Dartmouth Club of Chicago."

The class of '40 extends its sympathy to the families and friends of classmates who have died: Chester Snow Brett Jr., February 2 6; Robert S. Kinsman, March 10; and Donald McMahon, March 14. Their obituary notices will appear in this or later issues of this magazine.

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