Belated news of the June 12, 2004 death of LeonardHedberg has recently been received.

    He died in Walnut Creek, California of causes not known to the alumni records office.

                            Len arrived at  Dartmouth from Albany, New York where he had been a basketball star at Albany Academy. He soon established himself as the same on the Dartmouth team. A member of Alpha Delta Phi and Dragon, Len graduated from Tuck. After service as a Navy destroyer gunnery officer, he went to work for AT&T in California. After thirty years he retired in 1987 as a vice-president.

                            He was a very active retiree. He became board chairman of the San Francisco Salvation Army and was passionately interested in the 49ers, the Giants, travel, bridge, golf and books. 

                            Len was divorced in 1987 and did not remarry. He had three daughters, one of whom predeceased him. He leaves three granddaughters.