Reginald Harcourt Dodds ’58

Reginald Harcourt Dodds ’58, Dartmouth’s first African-American trustee, died of cardiac amyloidosis at home in Mount Kisco, New York, on July 12 with wife Barbara at his bedside. From Stuyvesant High School in Brooklyn, his undergraduate accomplishments were many—Green Key, Palaeopitus, Undergraduate Council, Interfraternity Council, Forensic Union, Casque & Gauntlet, Phi Beta Kappa, Rufus Choate Scholar. After Yale Law School he served as assistant commissioner for native courts in northern Nigeria, an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York, deputy commissioner of the N.Y. Police Department, executive assistant corporate counsel for New York City and senior program officer at the Ford Foundation. At 35 he was named a Dartmouth trustee (serving from 1973 to 1983), then a Tuck School overseer (from 1974 to 80). Later he was an executive assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, taught law at St. John’s University and was a trustee of the New School for Social Research.