1944

A little trivia from the class of ’44.

Tim Gunn from Lakewood, Ohio, came one day to Dartmouth, left the next, was never heard from again.

Junius Hoffman was at Dartmouth for one week, transferred to Harvard, but returned to Hanover a week later because they housed him over a bowling alley.

Bud Troxell, elected first class president, as a sophomore halfback ran 94 yards through the whole Princeton team for a touchdown, a record still standing (we think).

Of the 27 football players on the freshman A squad, only six are still living.

Six members of the class had the last name of Allen; all passed away early, starting with Arthur Allen in 1978 and ending with Henry Allen in 1997.

Two classmates, Steve Holmes and Bill Mackoff, both Marines, were killed in the assault on Iwo Jima.

Our current class president, Penn Frost, is part of a long dynasty of Dartmouth grads: Enoch Charles Woods (son of Elizabeth Frost), class of 1850; Carlton Pennington Frost, first dean of the Medical School, class of 1852; Henry Martyn Frost, class of 1857, and his brother Edwin Brant Frost, class of 1858; Gilman Dubois Frost, class of 1886; Carlton P. Frost III, class of ’18, and his brother Philip Thurston Frost ’21; Carlton P. Frost IV ’44; Carlton P. Frost V ’74; Carlton P. Frost VI ’10. Whew! That must be a record.

We have two deaths to report: E. Bruce Dean on December 25, 2011, and Robert E. Hirschfield on March 13. We extend our condolences to their families.

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