Charles Wayne Holsworth ’43

Charles Wayne Holsworth ’43 died May 3. Charley graduated from Loomis, where he edited the school paper, was on the honor roll and played hockey and baseball. At Dartmouth Charley majored in botany and was active in the Radio Club. He was a Rufus Choate Scholar and a cum laude graduate. He enlisted in the Navy, but after a few months went to the Coast Guard Academy. Charley stayed in the Coast Guard Reserve, retiring after 20 years as a lieutenant commander. After the war he received a degree in forestry from the Yale Forestry School, worked in northern New Jersey, Massachusetts and New Hampshire before going into government forestry in Kentucky and New Jersey. To quote Charley: “Yes, New Jersey does have forests!” In retirement he became a forestry consultant. As a volunteer he served on the Vineland (New Jersey) Environmental Commission and was active in the Society to Save Our Rivers in Cumberland, New Jersey, and the Cumberland-Salem Consortium and chaired the Society of American Foresters (New Jersey). He was also active in the Presbyterian Church, where he was a chair of its board of trustees. Charley’s grandfather, Alfred H. Campbell, graduated from Dartmouth in 1877, uncle Caroll A. Campbell in 1905, and his brother Donald in 1946. While Charley was on leave in Hawaii he met Margit Larsen, whom he married in 1945. He is survived by his wife, three children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.