OBITUARY LLOYD H. GASTON

     Lloyd H. Gaston, Jr., died on September 24, 2006.  Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, he was graduted from the Horace Mann School in New York City.  At Dartmouth he majored in philosophy and was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1952 after taking a year off to study in France and Switzerland.

     He served two years in the U. S. Army and then pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.  Lloyd spent two years as a Presbyterian pastor in New Jersey before beginning a 40 year academic career at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  After 10 years there, he arived at the Vancouver (British Columbia) School of Theology where he became a professor of the New Testament.

He once remarked that his Dartmouth experience was most influential when he began his own teaching career.  Surviving Lloyd are his wife Suzanne, sons Johannes, Thmas '76, and Chrstopher and four grandchildren.