Geoffrey Alan Talbot ’54

Geoffrey Alan Talbot ’54, M.D., passed away at the age of 87 on May 27, 2021, in Melrose, Massachusetts, following a brief illness. Geoff came to Dartmouth from Natick (Massachusetts) High School, where he participated in the school paper, dramatics, and the yearbook and was a member of the National Honor Society. At Dartmouth he majored in mathematics and was a member of the Dartmouth Christian Union and president of Tabard. After graduation he attended Tufts Medical School, served two years in the U.S. Navy and went on to complete a urology residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Settling in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, Geoff commenced a solo practice of urology that spanned half a century in Melrose and Stoneham, Massachusetts. He enjoyed the outdoors and in our 25th reunion “Reflections” wrote of a “patch of land in Norwich, Vermont, for outdoor enjoyment that is unencumbered with buildings or other modern facilities.” In the ’54 50th reunion book, More Reflections, he reported frequent trips to Hanover “on the way to a cabin in Norwich.” Concerned with the direction of society and a tendency to pessimism, he expressed in 1979 that he was yet an optimist “because I don’t think it takes much to find some really good things and some terrific ideas in today’s world.” In 2004 he recommended walking “around one’s old haunts” in Hanover. Geoff is survived by sons Alan ’83, Christopher, and Chandler as well as his first wife, Jeanne, and second wife, Sharon.