Howard L. Neff ’63

Howard L. Neff ’63 died October 2, 2019, surrounded by his family at home in Los Altos, California, after a recurrence of leukemia. He was born in 1941 in Connersville, Indiana, and graduated from Connersville High School, where he participated in football and track. At Dartmouth Howard majored in economics and played football and rugby. He was a brother of Kappa Sigma and a member of Dragon. While at Dartmouth Howard served three years in the U.S. Army and graduated with the class of ’66. Howard and Sheri were married for 49 years. He was a farm boy from Indiana whose parents taught him the value of hard work, responsibility, and integrity. These attributes took him on to challenging jobs at Consolidated Aluminum, Johnson and Johnson, and Applied Materials, where he worked for 23 years and became group vice president and president of subsidiary Applied Komatsu Technology. In retirement Howard served on the board of Digital Divide Data, working in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya. He funded a science wing at his high school and scholarships to underprivileged students in Cambodia. He is survived by his wife, daughters Stacy and Simeon, and three grandchildren. He was buried in the family plot in his hometown among generations of his ancestors.