Eric Gordon Winter Barradale ’44

Eric Gordon Winter Barradale ’44 passed away peacefully on May 25, 2021, in Brattleboro, Vermont. A member of the Dartmouth Outing Club, Green Key Society, and the skiing and tennis teams at Dartmouth, he enlisted in the Navy during World War II, interrupting his time in Hanover. He became a naval aviator, flying anti-submarine patrols over the western approaches to the Panama Canal between Nicaragua and Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. He married his high school sweetheart, Joan, and returned to Hanover to finish his degree. After attending Tufts Dental School in Boston, he maintained his dental practice in Brattleboro for 35 years, selling his practice on his 65th birthday. Eric was active in public service for the town of Brattleboro and continued to excel in sports, playing a memorable doubles exhibition match at Mount Snow with Don Budge, winner of Tennis’ Grand Slam in 1938. He was an early enthusiast and promoter of cross-country skiing, helping to organize the Washington’s Birthday Touring Race in southern Vermont in the 1960s and early 1970s. Eric also completed the Vasaloppet Ski Race in Sweden, a 50-mile course, in the mid 1960s. After his retirement, Eric served Dartmouth as mini-reunion chair, club officer, class agent, class president, and alumni councilor, and was honored as Class President of the Year in 2000. He also worked to improve and maintain the family homestead, Catamount Farm, in Guilford, Vermont. He is survived by wife Joan and sons David and John.