Roman Chester Stanley ’47

Roman Chester Stanley ’47 died on April 17 in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He grew up in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, attended nearby Milford High School, qualified for the naval V-5 and V-12 program, and was assigned to Dartmouth. He majored in physics, served in the Navy and became a physicist with the Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory in Panama City, Florida, where he was involved in minesweeping-equipment development. He worked there for 30 years, rising to become head of the acoustics and mine-hunting division. He retired to Brevard, North Carolina, where he enjoyed tennis, hiking and mycology. He taught a course in mushroom identification at Brevard Community College. He returned to Florida in 2002. He is survived by a son.