David Eppens Hodson ’60

David Eppens Hodson ’60 died on June 16 in New York City. Dave grew up in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and graduated from the Loomis School before matriculating to Dartmouth. At Dartmouth he majored in English, was a member of Psi Upsilon, rowed on the crew for four years and graduated as a member Dartmouth’s Army ROTC program. As an alumnus he served as a class officer, a telethon chair and class agent and as an alumni interviewer for admissions. Dave had a love affair with books, nurtured undoubtedly by the Dartmouth English department. He wrote during our 40th reunion that “2000 is proving to be a productive year in my fledgling antiquarian book business called Four Walls and Eight Windows, specializing in 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century Americana and Europe.” A self-described Germanophile, Dave “treasured his family’s strong Germanic roots in Quakenbruck, Germany, and Hoboken, New Jersey.” In 2009 he traveled twice to Quakenbruck in search of his family’s Eppens ancestry. Dave was always a serious historian and guardian of his family genealogy. To our knowledge, Dave left behind little family except for sister Suzanne.