Vernon Francis Dudley ’45 died on September 10, 2005, in Guilford, Connecticut.

Born on July 2, 1923, in Guilford, he prepared for college at the local high school and became a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he attended in 1941-42. With his father, he was a dairy farmer in Guilford from 1942 until 1967, when he became a truck driver with B.B. Munger Lumber Company in Madison, CT. He retired in 1983. Surviving are his wife, Marjorie Watson Dudley, whom he married in 1947; a daughter, Judith Dudley; three sons, Noel Dudley, Wayne Dudley, and Lyle Dudley.