DOUGLAS F. DORCHESTER ’46

DOUGLAS F. DORCHESTER, a retired minister, died Nov. 1, 2015. He was 91. The great-grandson of Daniel Dorchester of the class of 1847 and the son of Donald H. Dorchester of the class of 1917, he received his degree with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During World War II he served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy and then received a degree from the Yale Divinity School. He served a wide range of ministries from the local parish to the denominational level. For more than 20 years he served as executive secretary of the Board of Education in Southern New England and Northern New Jersey, as well as serving in a number of ecumenical positions. His wife, Janice Potter Dorchester, survives, as do four children, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. One son predeceased him.