David Franklin Bunting ’63

David Franklin Bunting ’63 of Cambridge, Massachusetts, died July 13, 2011, following a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Dave grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts, and played varsity hockey and competed in track and field and cross country at Dartmouth. He was a brother of Phi Delta Alpha/Phi Delta Theta. Upon graduation Dave served in the Marine Corps as an officer and helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. On discharge he pursued a series of entrepreneurial ventures and earned a master’s in management from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He structured investment projects and for the last several years was the managing director Chatsworth Securities LLC. Dave’s creative bent was seen in the many residences he transformed with a unique use of color, architectural vision and landscape design. He was an avid sailor and took up single-scull rowing later in life, competing in the Head of the Charles regatta three times. Dave served as a Dartmouth alumni fraternity and class agent. He is survived by his wife, Nia, children Derek ’89 and Nicole ’87 and stepchildren Caben and Ian.