Edward Roland Noyes, Jr. ’48 died on December 28, 2006, in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Born on July 21, 1927, in Marlboro, MA, he prepared for college at Natick (MA) High School and became a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he attended in 1944-45 before serving in the U.S. Merchant Maritime Service until 1947, when he returned to the College. He completed work for his degree in September of 1949 and received his degree in February of 1950 as a member of the Class of 1948. During the Korean conflict, he served in the U.S. Air Force. For many years he was associated with the Massachusetts Indemnity and Life Insurance Company, retiring as its president in 1982. He was a past commodore of the Monomoy Yacht Club, a member of the Veterans of Foreign wars in Alstead, NH, and held various elected and appointed town offices in Amherst, NH, and Chatham, MA. He was also a director of the Pennsylvania Life Company and the Barnstable County National Bank. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Caldwell Noyes, whom he married in 1963, and a daughter, Dara Gall of Augusta.