David Stuart Rennie ’52

David Stuart Rennie ’52 of Baxter, Tennessee, passed away on April 22, 2012. Stu was born on October 19, 1927, in Hanover and graduated from the Clark School in Hanover in 1946. Stu then entered the U.S. Army for 16 months before enrolling at Dartmouth. He majored in geography and was a member of Kappa Phi Kappa, an honor society established to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study and to promote the “unity and democracy of education.” Following graduation Stu joined the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C., as a cartographic aide and, in 1958, joined the U.S. Air Force for four years. While in the Air Force he served in California and British Columbia as a radarscope operator for the Air Defense Command. He then spent the balance of his career as an employee of the U.S. Postal Service for 40 years, retiring in 1992. He was a member of Algood (Tennessee) United Methodist Church, where he sang in the choir. Music was one of his loves. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, M. Carole (whom he married in Hanover on November 10, 1962), daughter June and son-in-law Chuck, son Michael and daughter-in-law Kristy.