DONALD T. SANDERS ’52

DONALD T. SANDERS, a geologist and later an editor and writer, and longtime class secretary, died Nov. 9, 2014, at age 84. He was a member of Delta Upsilon and served in the U.S. Army. After receiving his master’s degree from the University of Kansas, he worked for Conoco Oil Company doing fieldwork. He soon found that his true passion was writing and editing, and he moved to New York City, where he began working for Grolier Encyclopedia and Scholastic magazine before joining IBM as an editor and writer for their in-house publications, Perspectives in Computing and Research Magazine. He retired from IBM in 1991. With a co-author, he wrote two books, Volcanoes in Human History and Earthquakes in Human History. He was also secretary of the class of 1952 for more than 50 years. His former wife, Carol Flynn, predeceased him. Among those who survive are his daughter, two grandchildren, three nephews, his cousin, Nancy Gordon MAT’60, and his long-time companion, Joan Boutelle.