Stephen Lester Margolis ’59


Stephen Lester Margolis ’59 passed away on February 16 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Steve entered Dartmouth from the Loomis School (now Loomis-Chaffee) in Windsor, Connecticut, having been brought up in West Harford, Connecticut. Steve captained both the Loomis football and track teams. He held the Loomis shot-put record for several decades. At Dartmouth Steve was a member of the football team in his freshman and sophomore years and Psi Upsilon. On the Dartmouth track team for four years, Steve competed in the shot put. A number of Dartmouth-Loomis classmates wrote that Steve was kind, gentle, incredibly good-natured, sincere, loyal and so funny. After graduating from Dartmouth Steve earned his M.B.A. from Columbia School of Business in 1961. Between 1961 and 1970 Steve was employed in marketing and sales at General Foods, Colgate Palmolive and Chunky Chocolate. In 1970 he founded Stephen L. Margolis Co., a gourmet, health food and candy brokerage company in White Plains, New York. A few years later he took a partner and the company became M&Y Sales Associates in Tarrytown, New York, where Steve represented such lines as Jelly Belly, Lindt Chocolate, among others, to the metropolitan New York market. He retired from the company in 2007. He enjoyed salt-water fishing, traveling with his wife, reading spy and thriller novels and spending time with his granddaughters. His wife of 49 years, Roberta, daughters Julie and Loren and granddaughters Lily, Talia and Mia survive Steve.