M. Vance Munro ’60

Vance died July 5, 2016, after a long illness.

He came to us from Tabor Academy, which he attended on an “Island Boy” scholarship. At Princeton, he joined Whig-Clio and Cannon Club and roomed with Dick Briggs during his senior year. He wrote his thesis for the Woodrow Wilson School on the peaceful uses of atomic energy and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Married shortly after graduation, Vance attended Harvard Law School and began his distinguished career in corporate law with Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett in Boston in 1963.

Vance served for 27 years as a trustee of Tabor and rose to the position of senior partner at Gaston Snow, retiring in 1990. His extracurricular pleasures included cooking traditional New England cuisine with family and friends, a skill he learned early on while cooking at his family’s restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard. He also enjoyed travel, antiques, cribbage, and Scrabble.

He is survived by his fiancée, Louise Savary; his daughters, Heidi, Elisabeth, and Heather and their spouses; and eight grandchildren. To all, the class extends its sympathy.