Melvin M. Shiramizu ’63

Melvin M. Shiramizu ’63 died on January 22 in Lakewood, Colorado, of multiple system atrophy. Melvin was born in February 1942 after his father was drafted and sent to Texas and Wisconsin for training before being sent to Europe. Shortly thereafter Melvin and his remaining family were forced to evacuate from Salinas, California, to an internment camp in the Arizona desert. His father was killed in Italy. After the war Melvin and his mother and sister relocated to Denver, where Melvin grew up. He attended Manual High School, graduating cum laude, and attended Boys’ State. He graduated from Dartmouth, where he was a brother of Phi Tau, in 1964 and Thayer School in 1965. After Dartmouth Melvin had a successful career as a computer manufacturing engineer and worked for Storage Tek.