John “Jack” L. Steele Jr. ’63

John “Jack” L. Steele Jr. ’63 died on August 24, 2024, after complications from a fall. He was from Natick, Massachusetts, and graduated from Karlsruhe American High School in Germany, where he was class president and participated in yearbook and dramatics. At Dartmouth Jack majored in geography. He was a brother and treasurer of Alpha Theta and was in the U.S. Navy ROTC all four years. He then joined the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia, aboard a cargo ship of the Atlantic fleet. But the Navy had other plans for Jack, sending him to language school and then to U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon, where he served during the Vietnam War. After the war Jack obtained his J.D. at Suffolk University in Boston before joining General Radio Co. (later Genrad) in West Concord, Massachusetts, where he worked for 18 years as in-house counsel. Jack then stepped out on his own and, with others, founded MRS Technology, which manufactured photolithographic cameras. Jack was an active skier, sailor, and fisherman. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Carole, and three children.