John Norman Miksic ’68 , a distinguished scholar at National University of Singapore, passed away from pneumonia on October 25, 2025, after a four-year illness with melanoma. John came to Dartmouth from Hemlock, New York. His interests in archeology began early, when he would roam the family farm looking for Iroquois artifacts. At Dartmouth he was an anthropology major and a member of the freshman Glee Club and Handel Society. After Dartmouth John joined the Peace Corps, serving in Malaysia. There he hired Goh Geok Yian to teach him the local Chinese dialect. “I ended up marrying my teacher, after extending my Peace Corps stint in order to overcome objections from my future in-laws to having a foreign devil in the family,” he said. After returning to the States in 1972, he quickly realized he enjoyed archeology and did field work in Honduras and Sumatra. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell in 1979. After two years with U.S. Agency for International Development, John had multiple academic positions in Indonesia and later Singapore. A distinguished archeologist, he won the Singapore History Prize for Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800. In 2023 he was awarded the Government of Singapore Public Service Medal for his contributions to the nation. In 2024 John received a Give A Rouse Award from the class of 1968. John is survived by his wife, Goh; children Ezra and Vonya from his first marriage; and four grandchildren.