Peter Craig Ginder ’68

Peter Craig Ginder ’68 died on February 7 in Anchorage, Alaska, of a heart attack. Pete graduated from West Anchorage High School. A government major at Dartmouth, he worked at WDCR and The Dartmouth and was a member of Sigma Theta Epsilon. Pete also was a four-year member of ROTC. In Vietnam he worked for the Stars and Stripes as a photographer and took extraordinary shots of both combat and daily life to illustrate stories of people continuing on despite the war. After Vietnam he attended Denver University and then became an attorney in Anchorage, specializing in commercial law and estate planning. His fascination was college basketball: He knew the game inside and out and prospered using that knowledge during annual trips to Reno, Nevada. He was instrumental in creating an annual Thanksgiving basketball tournament in Anchorage, to which numerous schools with promising teams were invited. A gifted photographer, he never really embraced digital technology but had a treasure trove of great photographs in Kodacolor or Ektachrome slides, which he had recently had scanned and digitized. Pete is survived by his former wife, Julia, and son Brian; his son, Jonathan, predeceased him.