Daniel A. Westberg ’71

Daniel A. Westberg ’71,D.Phil., died on October 18, 2017, in a boating accident in Upper Nashotah Lake, Wisconsin. Daniel grew up in Japan, where his parents were missionaries with the Evangelical Covenant Church. While attending Dartmouth Daniel participated in the Classics Club, the Conservative Union, the Forensic Union, and student workshops. After graduation, Daniel attended graduate school in Toronto, where he became an Anglican and experienced a call to ordained ministry. After seminary training and ordination in 1978, he served in the Diocese of Toronto for 10 years in both rural and city parishes. After the death of his first wife, Lynne, Daniel married Lisa and moved his family to Oxford, England. He studied at Oxford University and wrote a dissertation on Thomas Aquinas and the virtue of prudence. From 1990 to 1998, Daniel taught at the University of Virginia, followed by an interim year teaching at a seminary in Canada. Since his appointment to the Nashotah House faculty in 2000, Daniel had been the seminary’s professor of ethics and moral theology. Daniel is survived by Lisa, his father, a brother, three sisters, four children, and three grandchildren.