Dirck VanBuren Myers ’57

Dirck VanBuren Myers ’57 died on November 17, 2022. Dirck came to Dartmouth from Roslyn (New York) High School. He majored in chemistry and was social chairman of Sigma Phi Epsilon and a member of the Dartmouth Film Society. In 1962 he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Washington, then completed two and a half years on a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. Rather than go into academia, he went into industry, first with Squibb in New Jersey. In 1968 he joined Coca-Cola in Atlanta, where he was principal investigator in issues of safety of all ingredients in Coca-Cola and related products, serving in this capacity for many years and retiring after 28 years. In 1994 he patented an inspection system to detect contaminants in recycled beverage bottles moving along a conveyor for Coca-Cola. Dirck and his family lived in the mountains of northeast Georgia, which he said “resembles New England.” They enjoyed a lake house, boating, and fishing on Georgia’s Lake Burton and a beach house near Wilmington, North Carolina, in Kure Beach where the Cape Fear River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. He was accomplished at piano and tennis. Dirck was predeceased by Judith, his wife of 58 years, and is survived by daughters Deborah, Jennifer, and Amy.