Donald Mortimer Sisson ’45

Donald Mortimer Sisson ’45 died in his sleep May 3 at Kendal at Hanover. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Theta and worked for The Dartmouth. After service in the Army he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and went on for a master’s in engineering from Tuck/Thayer. His early business association was with a family-owned firm in the packaging machine industry in Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City. After that company was sold he joined IBM in 1956 and experienced the glory days of that company’s rapid growth, first in field sales, then in various corporate positions that included travel to many countries, which he enjoyed. In 1947 he married Ruth MacIver, with whom he had played piano duets when he was 9. They lived in Tenafly, New Jersey, then New Canaan, Connecticut, before moving to a vacation home in New London, New Hampshire, in 1982. In New Jersey he helped found the Dartmouth Club of Bergen County, serving as its secretary and president. In New London he was a president of the historical society, a member of the conservation commission, a founder and treasurer of Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust and chairman of the friends of the library of Colby-Sawyer College. In 2001 he and Ruth received the town award given annually by Colby-Sawyer for service to town and college. He was an active member and supporter of the class of 1945 and served as secretary. He is survived by Ruth, sons David and John and one grandson.