Clemson N. Page ’67
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September-October 2026
Clemson N. Page ’67 died on March 7, 2025, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Clem came from the Haverford School and at Dartmouth majored in English, was a brother of Alpha Theta, and sang in the Glee Club. After graduation he served in the U.S. Navy and the Navy Reserve, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander. Following a brief stint as a reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin, Clem enrolled in the Villanova University Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1977. During his legal career, he was a partner of Bingaman, Hess, Coblentz & Bell and later Austin, Boland, Connor & Giorgi before establishing his own practice. A love of literature and singing stayed with him all his life. In 2007 Clem published Up Home Steadman, a novel set in northern Pennsylvania’s coal mining country, followed by Appearances of Impropriety in 2013, a collection of semiautobiographical short stories. Clem played the bagpipes with a few bands. Jeff Zimmerman ’67 remembers “Clem best as the piper, the man in the green tartan who, armed with his bagpipes and considerable skill at playing them, led Dartmouth Night parades for many years. I can picture him now, Hanover decked out in fall colors, the bonfire lighting the Green, and Clem at the head of a ragtag bunch of alums. It will never be Dartmouth Night without the ’67 piper.” In addition to wife Eve, Clem is survived by daughters Janet and Lindsay, stepdaughter Taryn, grandchildren Nora and Caleb, stepgrandchildren Kyla and Jeffrey, and brother Stephen.