News and Updates

DR. STEPHEN NUGENT, 52, Zionsville, a retired pediatric physician, died August 3, 1999.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 7 in Zionsville Presbyterian Church.

Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Aug 6 in Flanner & Buchanan Zionsville Mortuary.

Burial will be private.

Dr. Nugent was director of the Methodist Hospital pediatric intensive care unit, which he founded,for 13 years, retiring in 1993.

He was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Critical Care Medicine and Alpha Omega Alpha honorary fraternity.

Jack Penney died on January 31, 1999, at his home, of a heart attack. He leaves his wife Anne and two children, Jessica and Ellen. He was in the Band at Dartmouth. His home address is given by the College as 20 Chestnut Street, #3, Boston 02108-3602. Phone number is unlisted. According to my Dartmouth database, he was a doctor and had been employed by the Mass General Hospital. The notice from Dartmouth mentions the source of the information as the Boston Globe, February 5, 1999.

From The '69Times:

No published obituary available.

David Richard Wetmiller died on July 20, at home. He leaves his wife Amy Navity, and sons Jonathan and Timothy. They live at 4429 Linwood Court, #12, Indianapolis, IN46201, phone (317) 375-0024. David was a member of the DOC, the band, and the Dartmouth Christian Fellowship. According to the Aegis, he was a history major. The Class extends its sympathy to David’s family.

No published obituary is available at this time.

Robert W. Dickgiesser died unexpectedly in his sleep on September 19, 1997, at his home in Woodbridge, Conn. Bob majored in engineering sciences at Dartmouth and graduated from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1970. He was president of Charles J. Dickgiesser Co. of Derby since 1972. While at Dartmouth Bob was active in the Conservative Union, Republicans at Dartmouth, the Outing Club, the Chess Club, and the Dartmouth Society of Engineers and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. His level of activity did not diminish after graduation.

Ernest Doane Grinnell III was not your ordinary Dartmouth student. Though he helped in the financial end of WDCR enough to end up on the 1969 Directorate with me, I never knew him until maybe Junior year, though I wonder why because it would seem so difficult not to know who he was. Yet one did certainly have to get to know Doane to appreciate him. Having just heard that he died on March 17, I guess I realize that appreciation was never enough.

Robert M. Tyler Jr. died September 15, 1993, while on a mountaineering and wildlife-observation trip in British Columbia. At Dartmouth Bob was a member of the Tabard. He received his law degree from George Washington University and served a two-year clerkship at the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. In 1975 he joined the firm of Elam and Burke and became a partner in 1980, serving as the senior council of the firm's appellate section.

We do not have a published obituary. 

Dear friends,” reads Oscar Romero's card, “it saddens me to report that Peter Komanecky died in Washington, D.C., of AIDS–related complications on August 30, 1992. He is survived by his lover Radames Lozada of Alexandria, VA, his parents, Paul and Eve Komanecky of Binghamton, N.Y., and brothers.”

A photo of his gravestone in the Mount Comfort Cemetery in Alexandria, VA is included below. 

Michael N. Olschan died December 5 as a result of an aneurysm in the carotid artery. At Dartmouth Mike was an active member of Zeta Psi. Although a premed biology major, Mike entered the family business after graduation and eventually formed his own company, Retail Service Associates, distributors of non-food items to stores in New England and along the East Coast. Mike was active in the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport. He is survived by his parents, his wife, Marjorie, and five children.