Dave graduated from Princeton High School, where he participated in the band and orchestra, served as cross country captain, and was on the track team.  

At Princeton, Dave was a member of Quadrangle Club and Glee Club, chairman of the Nassau Herald, and student advertising manager of the University Store. He became lifelong friends with the “Execs,” his 12 college roommates. After graduation, he was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy. He married Esther Davis in 1958.  

After his Navy service he enrolled at MIT, where he earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in the field of heat transfer.

Dave joined Arthur D. Little in 1966 as an engineering consultant. His career highlights included a blood-storage experiment on the space shuttle Columbia. In 1987 he left to form Q-Metrics Inc., an engineering-consulting firm. At the time of his death, Dave was employed by Lockheed Martin at MIT in its aerospace engineering group.

A longtime member of the New England Aquarium, Dave loved tennis, scuba diving, and racing on the schooner Spirit of Massachusetts. He is survived by “Es”; their sons, Matthew and Daniel; and his sister, Linda Almgren Kime. His brother was the late Frederick Almgren ’55. To Dave’s family and many friends, the class extends condolences.

Undergraduate Class of 1957