J. Howard Carter Jr. ’52
J. Howard Carter Jr. ’52 died on March 20 in Stuart, Florida, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Howard was born on July 29, 1930, in New York City and graduated from Fordham Preparatory School in New York in 1948 before entering Dartmouth. He always said Dartmouth was the only college he considered. He majored in history and was a member of Zeta Psi. After graduation he served in the U.S. Army for two years. He then embarked on an eclectic and successful business career that started in toiletries sales with Elizabeth Arden until 1967, segued into broadcasting with RKO General until 1986, and finally settled into finance and investment banking with Cigna and A.G. Edwards until retirement in the early 1990s. Howard was always an active member of the Dartmouth alumni community. He lived in the Stuart-Palm City area for the past 20 years. Prior to being a fulltime Florida resident, he lived in northern New Jersey. He had four children with Mary Louise Ryan, his first wife, whom he married in 1958. He is survived by children Mary, Buddy, Caroline, and Philip and nine grandchildren. He was a longtime member of the New York Athletic Club, Spring Lake Golf and Country Club in New Jersey, and Harbor Ridge Community and Hammock Creek in Palm City.
