Eugenio Salazar Pérez Jr. ’73


Eugenio Salazar Pérez Jr. ’73 died on February 2 at home in Quezon City, Philippines, after a long illness related to a stroke suffered two years ago. Gene prepared for Dartmouth at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. At the College he majored in history and was a senior fellow. Gene was a member of the Dartmouth Players and the secretary of his fraternity, the Harold Parmington Foundation. Awarded a doctoral fellowship for graduate study in Renaissance history at the University of Minnesota, Gene instead returned after graduation to the Philippines to assume managerial responsibilities for his family’s holdings in the sugar, milling and banking industries. He was interested in art history and was a patron and a collector of Filipino art, maintaining a significant personal collection of works by portrait and landscape artist Fernando Amorsolo. Gene did not marry and is survived by his sisters Consuelo and Victoria.