Alfred Thomas Quirk ’49

Alfred Thomas Quirk ’49 died on October 12, 2017, at his home in Hanover. Al graduated from Meredith (New Hampshire) High School and spent three years with the Marines in the South Pacific before coming to Dartmouth. Al was a three-year star pitcher on the baseball team that captured the 1948 Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. He was the face of Dartmouth’s admissions office from 1963 to 1995, becoming director in 1979 and dean in 1982, and oversaw the entrance of 28,000 students and Dartmouth’s first enrolled women in 1972. In retirement Al became a fine artist. Al is survived by daughters Judith and Louise.