Philip Bradbury Shepard ’48

Philip Bradbury Shepard ’48 died at Central Maine Medical Center on September 10, 2009, at age 87. He was born in Pasadena, California, but his early years were spent in China, where his father captained a gunboat with the Yangtze River Patrol. He joined the Navy at 17, serving on destroyers in the Atlantic and on a PT boat in the Pacific. He came to Hanover in 1943 as a Navy V-12 trainee. After discharge in 1946 he returned to Dartmouth and was an active DOC member as head of Cabin & Trail and Ledyard Canoe Club. In the fall of 1947 he directed crews fighting a huge forest fire in the Sunapee, New Hampshire, area. He majored in history and moved on to Penn for a master’s in that field. He rejoined the Navy and served as a naval intelligence officer around the world, retiring as a commander. “Shep” retired to Yarmouth, Maine, where he had spent summers as a youth and kept in close touch with DOC buddies such as Moose Viereck ’48. In 1948 he married Ruth Ann Brown, who died in 1982. He is survived by son Andy, daughters Deb, Nan and Betsey and cousin George Kain ’70.