Gilbert Dubois Noble ’52

Gilbert Dubois Noble ’52 died on April 18 at Hanover Terrace in Hanover. He was born in Randolph, Vermont, on April 2, 1930. Gib’s early education was at South Royalton (Vermont) High School, where his father was a longtime principal. He then attended Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth Gib majored in education and was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa. After service in the U.S. Army for two years, he acquired a job teaching math and driver education at Randolph High School. There he met Barbara Raab, a University of Vermont senior from New Jersey who was teaching home economics. They married in 1956 and raised five children. Gib, emulating his father, served terms as a high school principal, in Rochester and Fair Haven, Vermont. He later changed direction and went into sales, first of insurance, later of real estate. During a slow period for sales, he worked a rural mail carrier’s job as a substitute and, when the route opened in 1994, Gib went full time, enjoying the people he met and traveling local roads. He retired in 1997. Throughout his life he greatly enjoyed singing bass in various choral groups from Woodstock to Brookfield in Vermont, many times with the Randolph Singers. Gib is survived by his wife of 62 years, Barbara, children Tom, Jim, Gail, and Sarah, and five grandchildren. His daughter, Elizabeth, predeceased him.