David Rockwell Cudlip ’55 passed away June 20 at his home in Tryon, North Carolina. Born in Detroit in 1933, Dave came to Hanover from the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods, where he was active in football, track, and tennis. A member of Psi Upsilon, Dave left Dartmouth in 1954 to join the U.S. Army for two years, serving in military intelligence, partly in Germany. He returned to earn his A.B. and then an M.B.A. from Tuck School in 1958. Following graduation Dave moved to New York City, where he worked in accounting and finance for several years, married Caroline Morris Byers, and became executive vice president of Overseas National Airways, based in Jamaica, New York, and specializing in international charter operations and military transportation. In 1976 Dave testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Aviation and provided consulting for the Nixon White House before entering a new career phase in executive recruitment and business information. He also remarried, and with his second wife, Lee Berkely, moved to Southern California, where she was active in the book business. They subsequently moved to southwestern North Carolina and published an email subscription newsletter called Bookhounds. In 1984 Dave published the first of his seven novels under Cudlip Novels, some of which were released in the United Kingdom as well as the United States. Lee died in 2025. Dave is survived by two children and four grandchildren.