Roland “Rick” Michael Damiano ’62

Roland “Rick” Michael Damiano ’62 passed away on April 22, 2011. His last known place of residence was Carmel, California. Rick came to Dartmouth from St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn, where he served variously as class president and member of the student council, was involved in the newspaper, yearbook and school magazine, and graduated cum laude. At Dartmouth as a freshman he took up residence in Brown Hall. Doug MacPhail ’62, who lived on the floor above him, remembers Rick affecting “a certain Brooklyn tough-guy swagger” but concealing beneath the surface a very friendly demeanor. “I remember him on campus wearing sunglasses!” Doug recalls. The next year Rick became a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He is pictured with his brothers in the 1960 Aegis. At some point thereafter Rick left Dartmouth. The last documented word of his activities was dated October 3, 1965, at which time he reported that he was working on a doctorate in sociology at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and teaching at St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York. He indicated that he got married in 1961 and had since fathered two children.