Robert Evans Dohrenwend ’60

Robert Evans Dohrenwend ’60, M.D., died at his home after a long bout with lymphoma on September 27, 2020. He was a resident of Elo, Michigan, for the last 45 years. After graduation from Dartmouth and the U.S. Army language school in Arabic, he served in the Army Security Agency and was honorably discharged. He received a degree in forestry from the SUNY College of Forestry and went on to study micrometeorology and physical ecology, obtaining his doctorate from Syracuse University in 1972. He carried out field research on high-altitude tropical ecosystems at the Centro Cientifico Tropical in San Jose, Costa Rica. Thereafter he was a faculty member of the department of botany at the University of Florida, where he taught plant ecology. Moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he was on the faculty of Michigan Technological University, teaching plant ecology. He and his wife of 53 years, Jeffrey, visited most of the United States, much of Canada, Central America, Europe, Iceland, and New Zealand. A student of the fighting arts since the 1960s, he was editor-in-chief of Classical Fighting Arts. An avid hunter and archer, he worked for 10 years at Firearms and Supplies Co. in Hancock, Michigan. He was fluent in several languages and compiled two multilingual dictionaries for collectors and historians in the field of antique small arms. He is survived by Jeffrey, daughter Trudy, and five grandchildren.