Victor H. Mair ’65 died on June 28 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, from a chronic condition. He came to Dartmouth from East Canton, Ohio. An English major, he played basketball all four years, including as captain, and was a member of Green Key and Casque & Gauntlet and a senior fellow. Following graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and served two years in Tibet. He earned a Ph.D. at Harvard (1976) and an M.Phil. at University of London (1984). His studies at first concentrated on Buddhism and then branched out to research Chinese language and literature. For more than 30 years he was a tenured professor in these fields at the University of Pennsylvania (turning down a similar appointment to Harvard Divinity School). He founded and edited Xin Tang, a journal of romanized Mandarin distributed in China. To his colleagues, Vic was “a teacher whose entertaining and inquisitive intelligence shaped not just his undergraduate and graduate students but also the world of sinology far beyond the classrooms of Penn.” Vic was known for his ambitious runs—which he would break into daily segments during “running vacations”—which continued into his 80s. He had been planning a mountain hike from Zweisimmen, Switzerland (where his maternal great-grandfather was born), to Pfaffenhofen, Austria (where his father was born). He is survived by his son T.K., grandchildren Samara and Leo, and siblings Joe, Dave, and Heidi.