It was a pleasure to read of the success of the Class of 1944 Place in Penn Frost’s spring newsletter. That project was certainly one of the class’ most ambitious undertakings, and it is rewarding to know that it has fulfilled its promise at Berry Library.

We have been notified of the death of Richard John Allenby on January 11 at his home in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Dick came to Dartmouth from Highland Park, Illinois. His war service was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, after which he returned to Highland Park to marry Julia. He completed his education with a Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Toronto, Canada. He then joined Standard Oil, working in the southern United States as well as Medellin and Barranquilla, Colombia. After returning to the United States he joined NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., as director of manned space science for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo lunar programs. This work involved traveling the world, teaching astronauts about the geology they might encounter on the moon. After the Apollo program successfully landed men on the moon and returned them to earth, Dick transitioned to the U.S. Geological Survey, where he specialized in the study of earthquakes. In retirement he continued to consult in earthquake prediction and taught at the University of Maryland. Throughout his life Dick was an avid outdoorsman and spent many weeks at his family’s vacation home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Several years after the death of his wife, Julia, he married Barbara Snobble, widow of his Dartmouth roommate Jack Snobble, and joined her in Colorado. We extend our condolences to her and his family.

—Betty Munson, 23 Linscott Road No., York, ME 03909; elizmunson1944@gmail.com