Roger V. Zorn ’48

Roger V. Zorn ’48 died December 27, 2010, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He came to Dartmouth from Worcester (Massachusetts) Academy in 1944 and shortly thereafter joined the Army and was sent to the Philippines, where he was selected to become a member of the USO Jazz Band, where he met his future wife, Mary Helen, a volunteer in the American Red Cross. After the war he returned to Hanover, where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon, married Mary Helen in 1948 and graduated in 1949. He started his career working for the V&O Press Co. in his hometown of Hudson, New York. He was awarded the 32-degree Mason and became a member of the Mystic Shrine in 1957. He worked for the Rudal Machinery Co. in New York City and Boston in a sales management capacity from 1953 to 1972 and then for the W.H. Nichols Co. in Waltham, Massachusetts, for the next 10 years. Roger was an independent sales representative until he retired to Pinehurst. Throughout their years together Roger and Mary Helen enjoyed golf, bridge, friendship, watching hockey, drinking an occasional scotch and raising their family. He is survived by Mary Helen, two sons and four grandchildren.