Skewes, who passed away on Mar. 27, served beneath 4 Dartmouth presidents and worked for a quantity of Hanover neighborhood organizations.

by Varun Swaminathan
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Supply: Courtesy of David Skewes

More than the course of his life, John Greenslade Skewes ’51 TU ’56 had a “peaceful” attitude that profoundly impacted everybody about him, according to his son David Skewes. 

“He was one particular of the kindest people today I ever knew,” his son, David Skewes, stated. “Everybody that knew him loved him.”

Skewes, who passed away on Mar. 27, served as Director of Business enterprise Affairs for the College and led and founded a number of organizations in Hanover. Skewes is survived by his two sons, two daughters, 5 grandchildren and 3 wonderful-grandchildren, according to his on the web obituary. He was 93 years old.

Skewes was very involved in town life, according to David Skewes. He founded the Hanover Youth Hockey Association, served as president of the Hanover Improvement Society, was a member of each the Hanover and Dresden College Boards and the Hanover Board of Selectmen. Skewes also chaired the Hanover Inn Board of Overseers, directed the Hanover Water Operates Organization and was involved with the Hanover Rotary Club. In 1993, Skewes was named Hanover’s Citizen of the Year. 

Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1929, Skewes moved to Concord, Massachusetts, for his senior year of higher college just before graduating in 1946. 

As a born and raised Granite Stater who grew up attending Dartmouth football games and track meets, Skewes by no means doubted exactly where he wanted to attend college, he stated in a 2003 interview. 

“I was a Dartmouth fan from becoming a kid,” Skewes stated. “I just by no means deemed something else.” 

Dartmouth was the only college applied to, and he was “semi-recruited” to play football by backfield coach Milton Piepul, according to Skewes’ interview. Whilst in college, Skewes majored in history and founded Dartmouth’s initially rugby group. 

“[John Skewes and other students] began the rugby system since there was a tournament in Bermuda,” David Skewes stated. “They believed it would be a wonderful excuse to go to Bermuda on spring break, which was one particular of his fondest memories.”

Following graduating from Dartmouth in 1951, Skewes enlisted in the Army “with 3 other friends” from college, serving as an officer for the duration of the Korean War. Whilst on leave from officer candidate college, Skewes met his wife Constance back in Concord. David Skewes recalled  his father’s story of meeting his mother at the division shop, exactly where she worked at the time.

“He went up to her and stated ‘Would you like to go to a hockey game?’ to which she responded ‘with who?’ and he stated ‘with me,’ and that was their introduction,” David Skewes stated.

Hockey was an significant component of Skewes’ life, according to David Skewes. He was his son’s hockey coach, and took their group to Lou’s Restaurant &amp Bakery — which was then owned by his buddy and founder Lou Bressett — following just about every practice. 

“I would nevertheless be in my hockey gear sitting at the counter with my dad, getting one particular of Lou’s crullers and a cup of hot chocolate,” David Skewes stated. “I’d say that is one particular of my favored memories.”

John Hochreiter, who served as President of the Hanover Improvement Society following Skewes, and as a member of the Hanover Rotary Club, remembered Skewes as “self-assured, dynamic and one particular of the brightest people today I’ve come across.”

According to Hochreiter, Skewes had a “valuable” connection to the Hanover neighborhood, adding that Skewes “engineered the subsequent two presidents” of the Hanover Improvement Society by “putting his arm about and saying ‘wouldn’t you like to do this?’” 

Skewes helped the Rotary Club to type a greater connection with the College, Hochreiter stated. As a member of the College’s administration, he facilitated the conversations that gave Rotary a “town-gown connection,” according to Hochreiter.

“[Skewes] constantly believed in the rotary traditions of service above self,” Hochreiter stated.

Skewes by no means forgot the lifelong mates he created whilst at Dartmouth. He could nevertheless recall the names of his classmates eighty years following graduation, operating into and sitting with old mates at Dartmouth football games, David Skewes stated.

“That’s a quite neat legacy,” he stated.

Each and every time Skewes left Hanover, he identified his way back. Following graduating from the Tuck College of Business enterprise in 1956, he and Connie temporarily moved to Connecticut. Ultimately, the couple identified that they could not justify living in Connecticut when they wanted to commit their time in New Hampshire, according to David Skewes.  

When asked what kept Skewes in Hanover, David Skewes answered, “Dartmouth.” 

“He just loved the College,” David Skewes stated. “He walked to operate. He was just so familiar with the spot and he loved becoming a component of that neighborhood.”