Jackson C. Stromberg ’58

Jackson C. Stromberg ’58 passed away at his home in Mill Valley, California, on November 5, 2024. Jack grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where his father founded Strombergs, a major retail clothing business. At Dartmouth Jack was a Daniel Webster scholar, majored in philosophy, competed on the track team, and was a member of the ski patrol, Casque & Gauntlet, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and graduated from Stanford Law School in 1963. He and his Norwegian wife, Elizabeth, put down roots in Mill Valley, where they would remain for the rest of their lives. After a number of years at a San Francisco law firm, he was recruited by Bechtel Enterprises to work under Casper Weinberger, later becoming treasurer and then president of Bechtel’s global financial subsidiary. Jack was an avid skier at Squaw Valley, loved heli-skiing in Canada, and enjoyed golf at the Meadow Club. In his 50th reunion book, he described his perspective: “Its essence is sharply accelerating change and the continuing failure of our country to grasp it.” For his 65th reunion, he wrote, “There is no end because all the memories live on.” Elizabeth predeceased him in 2020; he is survived by a son, daughters Lisen ’84 and Kirsten ’94, and eight grandchildren.