John F. Woodman *38

John F. Woodman died Oct. 12, 2002, in Auburn, Maine. He was 89.

Born in New Hampshire, John excelled early in school, winning the Dartmouth Medal for highest grades in high school and graduating from Dartmouth College itself with highest honors in chemistry in 1933. Eventually he won a Proctor Fellowship for further study at Princeton, where he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry.

John worked for the Philadelphia chemical company, Rohm and Haas, first in research and sales and then as head of the engineering laboratory concerned with Plexiglas acrylic plastics.

John sang with the company's male chorus and organized a male quartet that performed at numerous barbershop society functions. In 1973 he and his wife, Mary, retired to Maine.

John is survived by Mary; two sons; a daughter; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.