JOHN F. SNOW SR. ’49

JOHN F. SNOW SR., a former English teacher, died Feb. 23, 2017, at age 92. He was the son of the late Professor of English emeritus Charles Wilbert Snow, and the brother of Charles W. Snow of the class of 1947 and of Nicholas Snow of the class of 1949. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he left college to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served in the Pacific during World War II. After the war he completed his degree in English at UCLA and returned to his family’s summer home in Maine, where he worked at a cement plant and as a lobsterman. In 1967 he entered graduate school and received an MAT from Wesleyan in 1968. He then taught high school English in Middletown for 11 years. Predeceased by his second wife, Lyn Seagraves Sampson, he is survived by five children, seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, his youngest brother, three stepchildren, and a niece, Caitlin S. Clark ’03.