Larry Alan Griffith ’68

Larry Alan Griffith ’68 died on August 14 at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, of acute lymphoblastic leukemia with wife Julia and son Ben by his side. Larry was born in Libby, Montana, on March 8, 1946, and came to Dartmouth from Libby High School. He was a brother of Phi Kappa Psi and graduated with an A.B. (1968) and B.E. (1969) in engineering. He met Julia, a student at Wellesley College, on a blind date in 1968 and they married in 1970. Larry then served in the Navy in Naples, Italy, and after discharge in November 1972 and some European travel returned to Boston, where he received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1975). He next began a remarkably successful 29-year career at Owens-Illinois in Toledo, Ohio, retiring in 2004 as an executive vice president. In 1981 the couple welcomed son Benjamin. After retirement in 2005 Larry and Julia moved to Osprey, Florida, where they enjoyed many sailing trips. Larry served as treasurer and president of the Longboat Key Moorings Dockominium Association, where his 44-foot sailboat Marechiaro was docked. A second 44-foot sailboat, Starchaser, serving as summer residence, was docked first near Toledo, and later Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, to enable them to avoid Florida summers and cruise the Great Lakes. Larry’s body was cremated with interment pending at Sarasota National Cemetery. His classmates fondly remember him for his participation in many ’68 ski mini-reunions and their shared love of the outdoors and Dartmouth.