Evan Chandlee Archer ’34

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Chan Archer, who had lived at the Kendal at Hanover [N.H.] retirement community since 1991, died Jan. 10, 2004.

A retired executive vice president of the Philadelphia National Bank, he moved to Vermont in 1973 and served for 12 years as a loan consultant for the Howard Bank in Burlington. In Burlington he was active in Planned Parenthood, the United Way, the Vermont Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and other organizations with special concern for environmental matters.

Chan was the son of F. Morse Archer, Class of 1894. The late F.M. Archer Jr. '23 was his brother, and his sister, Elizabeth, was married to the late Henry B. Guthrie '24.

Chan is survived by his wife of 69 years, Frances (Fran) Allen, who was his first date on his 16th birthday ("She is still No. 1," he wrote many years later); a son, Evan Jr.; two daughters, Holly Crawford and Katharine Archer, and several grandchildren.

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