James Macleod Soper ’68

James Macleod Soper ’68 died on December 21, 2015, in his retirement home of Patagonia, Arizona. “Jock” grew up in Darien, Connecticut, and attended St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he was active in National Honor Society, the school newspaper, and served as class secretary and treasurer. At Dartmouth his freshman dorm was South Massachusetts, where classmates remember him as affable, pleasant and often smiling. He was a member of Gamma Delta Chi and left Dartmouth before graduating. His writing career began as a cub reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer in Vermont. Jock moved on to New York City, where he worked in public relations and won a Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America. Later he moved to Sonoma County in California, where he wrote about one of his favorite interests, wine. Jock spent the last five years of his life semi-retired in the town of Patagonia, Arizona. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Pamela, and children Amanda and Colin.