Joseph Paul Koucky ’59

Joseph Paul Koucky ’59 died on April 27, 2014. He entered Dartmouth from J. Sterling Morton High School in Cicero, Illinois. He was enrolled in the 3-2 Tuck program but, having decided to attend law school and practice law, he chose not to complete his business administration studies and graduated from Dartmouth in June 1959. He then entered the University of Michigan Law School, from which he received a law degree in 1962. Following law school he joined his father in Chicago in the practice of law and, after his father’s death in 1980, Joe continued to represent claimants in workmen’s compensation cases until his retirement in 2010. He leaves his wife of almost 40 years, Margaret, and children Daniel and Ellen.


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Book cover for Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made
Strange Bedfellas
New titles from Dartmouth writers (January/February 2025)
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At the Mercy of the Mountain

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