Xavier March ’57

Xavier March ’57 of Southbury, Connecticut, died on January 10 at Masonicare in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he received care for Alzheimer’s disease. Xavier was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated from Colegio Nacional Vicente Rocafuerte. At Dartmouth he majored in physics, was a member all four years of the Cosmopolitan Club and the Spanish Club, and was an international correspondent for La Nation and La Hora of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Xavier had a 40-year career as a systems analyst at IBM, where he worked on many projects, including developing computer programs for the development of NASA’s Saturn rocket in 1963. He and his family were assigned to England by IBM from 1970 to 1972. In 1985 he earned a master’s in computer science degree from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Xavier is survived by his wife, Carol, whom he married in 1962, sons Christopher and Gregory, and daughter Julia.