John Quincy Gooding ’45
John Quincy Gooding ’45 passed away April 12 peacefully at Doctors Hospice of Georgia in Fayetteville. He was the husband of Ethel (Winston), who predeceased him. John grew up on faculty row in Hanover and graduated from Vermont Academy before entering Dartmouth. He claimed an idyllic childhood with tennis tournaments and skiing on the golf course. He credits two English teachers at Vermont Academy with introducing him to a lifelong love of poetry, and he regretted having chosen “a spring afternoon” over hearing Robert Frost read at Baker Library. He became a member of Beta Theta Pi and Casque & Gauntlet. In the Marines he became a rifle instructor at Parris Island, South Carolina, which gave him experience in teaching. He then taught at Mount Herman for a short time and was a tennis professional at Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod before becoming a sales manager for Pittsburg Plate Glass for 30 years. That involved managing and mentoring employees in many different cities until he took over sales in Greensboro, North Carolina. He loved the South so much he moved there, and after Ethel died enjoyed winter quarters with his daughter Susan in Athens, Georgia, and summers in New Castle, New Hampshire, where he golfed at Wentworth by the Sea Country Club. He is survived by children Susan, Dorothy, Ellen and Richard.
