Peter Harrington Zischke ’52

Peter Harrington Zischke ’52 died peacefully on June 21 in Orinda, California. Pete was born in Chicago, grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, and attended Lake Forest Academy. He graduated in 1952 from Dartmouth, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Casque & Gauntlet. After Dartmouth Pete entered Army Officer Candidate School, graduating as a lieutenant. He served in Japan for two years and then joined the Zischke Organization, his father’s insurance and pension business in San Francisco. During the next 30 years he and his brother, Jim, transformed the Zischke Organization into a pioneering consulting firm specializing in pension and profit sharing plans. In 1982 the company merged with the Wyatt Co., a national firm. Pete served on the Wyatt board of directors until his retirement in 1986. He was a very active and loyal Dartmouth alumnus and donor. In 1970 he and several other Dartmouth classmates in the Bay Area instituted the ’52-’72 program, whereby groups of Dartmouth students from the class of 1972 would spend a term doing community service in Richmond or Oakland, California. Pete was an active longtime member of the Bohemian Club, serving as president from 1999 to 2001. Pete also served on the board of regents of the University of the Pacific for 14 years. He is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Marian “Midge”; children Michael ’77, Kurt, Marian ’84 and Karen ’86 and their spouses; and eight grandchildren, including Jessica ’16.