Martin Borofsky ’43

Martin Borofsky ’43 died October 14, 2015. He grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Concord High School, where he was on the student council and a member of the glee club and choir. At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry, was a member of the German Club and Pi Lambda Phi and was active with the Dartmouth Broadcasting System. During the war Marty worked at the Manhattan Project in Buffalo, New York. He met Marion Criden while working in Buffalo and they were married in 1945. After the war they settled in Claremont, New Hampshire, where for 41 years Marty was the owner of Marson’s Army and Navy Store. Through the years he was a city councilman, mayor of Claremont in 1980, president of Rotary and active in A Better Chance, the Boy Scouts and the PTA. He was also a member of the chamber of commerce, B’nai Brit and Temple Myer David. Marty retired in 1989 and, in 1991, he and Marion moved to Venice, Florida, where Marty was a member of the local temple and volunteered at the voting polls and with Associated Medicare Patients. Marion died in August 2015. Marty is survived by children Steven ’68, Clifford ’71, David, Joanne and Karen, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.