News and Updates

Michael N. Olschan died December 5 as a result of an aneurysm in the carotid artery. At Dartmouth Mike was an active member of Zeta Psi. Although a premed biology major, Mike entered the family business after graduation and eventually formed his own company, Retail Service Associates, distributors of non-food items to stores in New England and along the East Coast. Mike was active in the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport. He is survived by his parents, his wife, Marjorie, and five children.

David James Norden died on November 8, 1991, at his home in Hampden Sydney, Va., following a short illness. At the time of his death, Dave was the director of the Eggleston Library and Fuqua International Communications center at Hampden Sydney College, where he was also a lecturer in Russian.

After graduation, Dave did post-graduate work in Russian at Yale and received his master's degree in library science from Long Island University.

He is survived by his parents, his wife, Gail, and a son.

No published obituary is available at this time.

Richard H. Jordan, an internationally known Arctic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, died of a heart attack at his home in Fairbanks on January 19, 1991. Alaska was Dick's birthplace and spiritual home. He graduated from high school near Scranton, Penn., and joined us after a year as an exchange student in Holland.

Gifford Foley died Sunday, July 1, 1990, while performing an airplane stunt over the Niagara River in Buffalo.

An experienced pilot with thousands of hours in the air, Foley was also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and received a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts.

A resident of South Salem, he was recently appointed to the position of chief financial officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

On January 4, 1990, RICHARD JAMES FELMEISTER died at home in Houston, Texas.  Richard was single, and the cause of death is not known.  His father, Ralph Felmeister, lives at 2311 Coles Avenue, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076.

PETER WESLEY KITSON died on November 22, 1989, in Hartford Hospital, near his home in Glastonbury, Connecticut, after a short illness.  He leaves his wife, Cheryl, and children Nicole and Jeffrey (105 Stanley Drive, Glastonbury  06033, (203) 659-8859).

We do not have a published obituary, but he has a Wall of Honor profile in the National Air and Space Museum in Washing, DC.

* Born 20 September 1947 in Orange, VA.
* ROTC Dartmouth College.
* Trained as navigator in Pensacola, FL.

We do not have an official obituary for Michael (Strats) stratton, but here is a link to a great story about him in the April 1986 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (DAM).

Here is a writeup contributed by classmates:

There has been much written and said about Mike and the common denominator is: he was one helluva guy. Being larger than life, outdoors, and active was a good description of Mike but did not define him.

At this time, we do not have a published obituary. If you have memories, anecdotes, or access to an obituary you would like to share, please let us know.