John Bacon ’71
John Bacon ’71 died on March 16 of heart failure, leaving his wife, Susan, a children Alex and Kate. John was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Belmont Hill School and Dartmouth before earning a Ph.D. in education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1982. Until he retired in 2015, John devoted his professional life to education, serving as principal in Hartford and Bethel, Vermont, then superintendent of Danville and Barre, Vermont, school systems. John was a ski instructor, accomplished equestrian, avid fly fisherman, windsurfer, and hiker, camper, whitewater canoeist, and sailor. His heart was always close to the summer home of his youth on Vermont’s Lake Willoughby. It was more a camp, its wealth found in wildlife and extraordinary beauty. His distant neighbors didn’t know him, but they heard him every evening when he fired his signal canon at sunset.
