He graduated from Deerfield. After two years as an Army sergeant he entered Princeton, where he belonged to Cottage Club, majored in English, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
John completed his Princeton studies early and in 1949 entered Columbia as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After earning a master’s degree in English there, he embarked on a lifelong career in education. He taught at Athens College in Greece, Choate, Dartmouth College, and Hanover High School. For some years he was the junior writer of Writing: A College Handbook. After his retirement, he joined others to establish a program for peer-led lifelong education at Dartmouth, which in nine years grew to include more than 900 participants.
John and his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1949, preferred the beauty of New Hampshire and Vermont, though in recent years they wintered in Florida. He was a good athlete and enjoyed playing tennis with Mary.
We extend our sympathy to Mary; his sons, Peter ’75, Christopher, and Brian; and his grandchildren.