Richard Norvel Moersch ’49

Richard Norvel Moersch ’49 died on May 31, 2013, in Redlands, California, where he lived. Dick grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, and came to Dartmouth from Deerfield (Minnesota) Academy. Dick was a track star at Dartmouth. He spent most of his career as a heart surgeon in San Bernardino, California. One of the class’s top travelers, Dick scaled Kilimanjaro, went 20,000 feet up Mount Everest, reached the North Pole and rode camels in the Sahara. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou, and children Margaret and Peter.


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Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
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New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.

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Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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