John Baird, a retired professor of psychology at Dartmouth, died peacefully at home June 8, 2011, at the age of 72.

Baird graduated from Dartmouth in 1960 and was awarded a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton in 1964. He taught at Dartmouth from 1967 to 2000, and was a professor of psychological and brain sciences.

From 2000 until the time of his death, he founded and operated Psychological Applications and continued his association with the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as an adjunct professor of medicine.

He is survived by his wife, Clara Gimenez; two daughters; and four grandchildren.

Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.

Graduate Class of 1964