Calvin John Osberg ’43

Calvin John Osberg ’43 died May 19, 2015, at the William P. Clough Center in New London, New Hampshire. Cal grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts, and graduated from Melrose High School, where he was a member of the honor society and the ski team. At Dartmouth he was a member of the DOC and Alpha Theta Chi and attended Tuck School. He married his high school sweetheart, June Lander, in 1943. After duty tours in the Navy Cal was sent to the South Pacific. Following the war he and June returned to Hanover, where he completed his Tuck degree in the fall of 1946. Cal immediately went to work as an accountant for Ginn & Co., a textbook publisher in Boston. He stayed with them until 1969, eventually becoming a director and treasurer. He retired in 1969 when the company was bought by Xerox. In Lynnfield, Massachusetts, where he and June raised their children, he served on the town planning board and conservation board. He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the Lynnfield Center Church. In 1973 he and June moved to Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, where they found more time for travel, sailing, tennis, hiking and skiing. In his later years a severe arthritic condition limited his ability to continue his well-loved woodworking and gardening. Ever loyal to Dartmouth, Cal was treasurer of his class, served on the class executive committee and was an Alumni Fund volunteer. June died in 2002 and his son, Richard ’69, in 2007. Cal is survived by daughters Nancy and Martha, daughter-in-law Sally and their families, including eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.