Nancy Ann Bronder ’86

Nancy Ann Bronder ’86 died August 7 of injuries sustained in a bicycle accident in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Nancy was a graduate of the Bancroft School. While at Dartmouth Nancy participated in the astronomy study program at Kitt Peak, Arizona, in the fall of 1983, the Hopkins Center’s student workshops and Tuck School of Business Outward Bound. She was awarded the Physics Prize at her graduation from Dartmouth in 1987. Nancy did graduate work on the history of science at the University of Washington-Madison and received her master’s in education at Antioch University New England. From 1989 to 2017 Nancy taught math to middle school students in New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming and Syracuse, New York. Nancy, a master gardener, enjoyed painting, biking, walking and skiing. Nancy read good books every day. Nancy married Philip Major at the Hanover Friends meeting house in 1987. They shared the joys of dancing, music, good food and wilderness canoe trips together for 32 years and built a hilltop home in Sutton, New Hampshire. Nancy was a strong, perceptive, loving mother for her children, Eleanor and Noah. Nancy, a deeply spiritual person, continuously sought justice and truth. A memorial service was held August 27 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Syracuse, where Nancy sang in choirs, established a nursery for the care of the youngest members and worked with her husband in church programs. Nancy is survived by Philip and Eleanor and Noah. The Compassio Committee of the class of ’86 donated in her memory to the Heifer Project.