Walter F. Zwick ’63

Walter F. Zwick ’63 died at home in London on July 19, 2019, from congestive heart failure. “Fritz” was born in Hammond, Indiana, on May 8, 1941, and attended Fullerton High School in California, where he played football and basketball and ran track. At Dartmouth he played freshman and varsity basketball, was a brother of Chi Phi, and majored in math and economics. After Dartmouth he worked for IBM, attended MIT Sloan School of Management (and was editor of its business magazine), and worked for Cresap, McCormick in N.Y.C. Fritz was one of four Americans sent to head an office Cresap opened in Brussels in 1970. After the Yom Kippur War, the economics of Western Europe and the Middle East changed and Fritz took an assignment in Iran for a year. He made many new friends and appreciated the interesting and eye-opening assignment. In 1975 Fritz returned to Europe as an independent management consultant, which continued for 40 years. In London he especially enjoyed the theater, having been prepared by Dartmouth professor Ben Pressey by studying Shaw and Ibsen in “English 2.” Fritz traveled extensively and was a member Democrats Abroad. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine, daughters Karen and Linda ’94, son-in-law John, and two granddaughters.