Sabin Clark Abell ’54

Sabin Clark Abell ’54 passed away on June 1 in Vero Beach, Florida, as the result of a one-car automobile accident. Sabe came to Dartmouth from Burlington, Vermont. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth he was an English major, member of the lacrosse and ski teams and a brother of Alpha Theta. After graduation he joined the family business, Wood’s Sporting Goods, in Burlington. There he introduced Head skis to the area and began a long and varied career in the ski and sporting goods industry. As a manufacturing representative, Sabe introduced several ski and sporting goods products to the United States, setting up national sales and marketing agents. He later worked in the sporting goods trade show exhibit business. In 1999 he moved to Vero Beach and in 2004 he was elected to the Vero Beach city council, serving for six years, including as mayor from 2008 to 2009. In Vero Beach he was a member of the Moorings Club, Indian River Land Trust, McKee Gardens, Vero Beach Museum of Art and Riverside Theater. He also served as president of the Vero Beach Dartmouth Alumni Club. Sabe is survived by his wife, Karen, and daughter Kym and sons Matt and John.