1948

1948

Not much going on in our class right now with our diminishing vigor and with Covid, traveling and visiting is at a minimum. Our fully funded scholar-athlete award is suspended until the Ivies resume competition. Our president, Bud Munson, hopes to keep the class operative until the 75th reunion, which reminds me of some ofthe nice physical things we have left the College. We continue to support our rocking chairs on the porch of the Hanover Inn for the next five years and, I hope, in perpetuity. The program we established with the Hood Museum is noted by a plaque there. We have a recent chair on the north end ofthe campus south of Hitchcock. Last and probably least, but one of my favorites, is a little garden in front of Crosby that gets overgrown and which I weeded out on two mini-reunions.

Neil Gilbert, professor emeritus at University of California Davis (UCD), passed away last April. He completed his A.B. at Dartmouth, where he enjoyed hiking and camping with the Outing Club, and a Ph.D. at Columbia in the history of philosophy. Neil went on to teach at North Carolina State College, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Buffalo, and UCD, where he helped establish a religious studies major. In 1968 he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which he considered one of his life’s highlights, to research manuscripts and ancient libraries of Europe.

Jerome H. Zins died October 4,2020, with his wife of 68 years, Edith, at his side. After graduating from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi, and New York University Medical School, Jerry joined the U.S. Air Force. He went on to a fulfilling career in private practice as an internist specializing in cardiology. He raised his family of four children in Short Hills, New Jersey. While he had strong instincts and opinions, he was always open-minded in lively discussions and willing to listen and learn.

Donald H. Smith died November 12, 2019. He was a member ofthe French Club and Jack-o-Lantern at Dartmouth, where he earned his A.B. before earning an M.C.S. at Tuck in 1949. He subsequently earned an M.B.A. at Stanford in 1954.

—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@ verizon.net

Dave Kurr