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Stearns Anthony Morse ’52

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May-June 2024

Stearns Anthony Morse ’52 died on January 9 in Pelham, Massachusetts, six days after his 93rd birthday. Tony was born in Hanover, attended Hanover High School, and graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in geology. He spent summers working on an oceanographic research vessel on the Labrador coast. After graduating he was drafted into the Army and served in post-WWII Germany. He then returned to Labrador, where Dorothy Forbes, a Vassar undergraduate, was volunteering as a nurse’s aide. The two were married in 1960. In 1962 Tony earned his Ph.D. in geology from McGill University and joined the faculty of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1971 Tony took a position in the earth sciences department at UMass Amherst. He was a life member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America, a Carnegie fellow, and a senior fellow of the Mineralogical Association of America. He was a lifelong outdoorsman: a field geologist, navigator, scything promoter and contestant, avid skier, builder, sugarmaker, hunter, and active manager of woodlands. He is survived by Dorothy; daughters Elise, Anne, and Sophia; son-in-law Kevin; siblings-in-law Jed, Perry, and Tally; and four grandchildren. Tony’s father, Stearns Morse, was a Dartmouth English professor for 37 years and served as dean of freshmen.

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