News and Updates

Norden, David J. (11/8/1991)

David James Norden died on November 8, 1991, at his home in Hampden Sydney, Va., following a short illness. At the time of his death, Dave was the director of the Eggleston Library and Fuqua International Communications center at Hampden Sydney College, where he was also a lecturer in Russian.


After graduation, Dave did post-graduate work in Russian at Yale and received his master's degree in library science from Long Island University.


He is survived by his parents, his wife, Gail, and a son.


Jordan, Richard Heath (1/19/1991)

Richard H. Jordan, an internationally known Arctic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, died of a heart attack at his home in Fairbanks on January 19, 1991. Alaska was Dick's birthplace and spiritual home. He graduated from high school near Scranton, Penn., and joined us after a year as an exchange student in Holland.

Foley, Gifford "Giff" Thomas (7/1/1990)

Gifford Foley died Sunday, July 1, 1990, while performing an airplane stunt over the Niagara River in Buffalo.

An experienced pilot with thousands of hours in the air, Foley was also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and received a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts.

A resident of South Salem, he was recently appointed to the position of chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Stratton, Michael Alfred (11/14/1987)

We do not have an official obituary for Michael (Strats) stratton, but here is a link to a great story about him in the April 1986 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (DAM).

Here is a writeup contributed by classmates:

There has been much written and said about Mike and the common denominator is: he was one helluva guy. Being larger than life, outdoors, and active was a good description of Mike but did not define him.