Andrew George Pandaleon ’52
Andrew George Pandaleon ’52, a lifelong New Yorker who relocated to Highland Park, Illinois, in 2012, passed away January 17, 2015. George attended Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth and received an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business in 1953. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and a skilled debater, serving as president of the Forensic Union and a member of Delta Sigma Rho, the national forensic fraternity. After college George served in the U.S. Army, where he was stationed primarily at Fort Benjamin Harrison Finance Center in Indiana. In 1954 he married Mary Elizabeth Donovan of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and settled in Chappaqua, New York, raising their two sons. In 1988 he married Joan Heppiner Sharpe of Manhattan, where they resided until the move to Illinois. A marketing and finance professional, George held sales and executive marketing positions at U.S. Rubber Co., American Brake Shoe Co. and Old Town Carbon and Ribbon Co. In 1965 he joined his Dartmouth classmate Charles “Maury” Lyon, owner of Martin Reel Co., a fishing reel manufacturer. After Maury’s passing in 1985 George ultimately became president and sold the company to Zebco in 1991, staying on as president. George is survived by Joan, sons George (and wife Peggy) and Thomas (and wife Harumi), stepsons Jason and Amory and six grandchildren.
