Randal Mel Kirk ’73

Randal Mel Kirk ’73 died on November 7, 2016. Randal came to Dartmouth from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas. At the College he majored in government and Spanish, rowed on the freshman crew team and was a group leader for the foreign study program at the University of Salamanca in Spain. He was a teaching assistant in the Spanish department and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation Randal attended the University of Texas, where he earned a J.D. and was the articles editor on the law school’s international law journal. He was admitted to the Texas bar in 1976 and to the Colorado bar in 1990. Randal began his career in commercial and securities law in 1976 in Midland, Texas, with the firm of Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder Inc., and between 1981 and 2005 served as the chief legal officer of Flare Inc., the Leede Cos. and TrenStar Inc. At the time of his death Randal was a partner in the Denver law firm of Messner Reeves LLP and the president of Luxtura Inc. He was a master mason and a member of the East Denver Lodge No. 160 and the Enlightenment Lodge No. 198 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Randal was an alumni admissions interviewer and served in 1996 as a district enrollment director. He is survived by his wife, Donna, and son Randal II.