Deceased December 27, 2017
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In Memory
The College has learned of the death on Dec. 27, 2017, of Jack Cannon, a member of the class of 1954 during our freshman year. He came to Amherst from Moorestown (N.J.) Friends School, and after he left our class, following service in the U.S. Army, he graduated from Bates College in 1957. He subsequently earned a master’s degree from Brigham Young University. After holding a position as a distribution analyst for Mobil Oil Co. in NYC, he became director of financial aid and career planning at Southern Utah University for the remainder of his career. He was a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and with his wife, Susan (Daniels), whom he married while at Bates and who predeceased him in 2009, served as an ordinance worker in the St. George Utah Temple, in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, from 2001 to 2003 and as a bishop of the Cedar 12th Ward. Jack is survived by four children, 18 grandchildren, 21great-grandchildren and two sisters.
Hank Tulgan ’54