1925

It is sad for me to report that Francis "Bud" Brown died peacefully on February 6,2001, in Arizona. A Dartmouth Easterner, Bud chose to spend his life as a rancher in Arizona and was known at his college reunions as the cowboy in a proper hat and boots. Just last June he attended his 75th reunion in true Western garb. Besides ranching, he was a teacher, emphasizing to his students the importance of thinking for themselves (as he had learned at Dartmouth), and ran a restaurant called Bud Browns Barn where he served up heaping portions of Western-style food, music and dancing. During the nations bicentennial, he led a huge wagon train from Arizona to Valley Forge; he grew a big beard and wore a coonskin cap and buckskin clothing for the event. He told me that in his 90s he rode his mule every day. Although he couldn't see or hear very well at the time, the mule always brought him safely home. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family, which includes five children, 14 grandchildren and many great- grandchildren. A full obituary will be found in a later issue of the magazine, courtesy of Rad Tanzer. Sheila and Rad escaped much of the severe Hanover winter storms in Sanibel, Florida, which, while cool, was nothing like "the great white cold walking abroad" in Hanover. We see Sheilas sister Wendy and her husband, Bill Randall '52, often here at Harbour Ridge in warm and sunny Florida.

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