George Robert Dalphin ’47
George Robert Dalphin ’47 died unexpectedly on January 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was born in Malone, New York, on July 30, 1926; grew up in Brooklyn, New York; and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He was accepted in the Navy V-12 program, assigned to Dartmouth and majored in English. He served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. Upon graduation he began a 16-year career as the map librarian at Dartmouth. He developed the College map collection into one of the premier programs in the country. He left in 1963 for a position as a research librarian at Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico, where he worked for 25 years. During that time he earned degrees from the University of New Mexico in fine arts, anthropology and archeology. On retirement he moved to Corvallis, Oregon, where he lived until 2003, when he returned to New Mexico. He had a wide range of interests. He was a skilled carpenter and constructed a log cabin in Mountain View, New York, without the aid of power tools. He was a collector of maps, stamps, coins and old books. He was an avid painter and writer and continued to write both prose and poetry throughout his life. He is survived by his partner, Joann, two daughters and son Stephen ’69.
