IN MEMORIAM
20 03 thank you note, former faculty
He founded Mor ton Publishing
member Renny Kunhardt Swan said
in 1977 af ter many years working
“With your help, I traveled again
for Wadswor th Publishers and WC
to Mexico this past June to begin
Brown (par t of McGraw-Hill). While
the planning of a trip that could
the company star ted as a custom
shape some of our students the
publishing company, it went on to
way my students travel experiences
publish textbooks that specialize
shaped me [...] Thanks to your
in the sciences. Heather Brown ’94,
generosity, we will have a trip that is
who worked for Mor ton Publishing,
full of developmentally appropriate
writes, “As a business owner, he was
learning ac tivities, exciting
dedicated to his customers and his
cultural experiences, and Mexican
employees and was always friendly
adventures.”
and approachable.”
Mor ton and Brown, who both
While he was a business owner and
traveled extensively, believe in
entrepreneur, those who knew Mor ton
the transformational power of
do not describe him as a typical
experiencing something new. “[Doug
business man. “Once a year, Doug
had] jet fuel in his veins, because he
and Marilyn would book a week long
loved to travel so much,” said Brown.
trip each year for all their employees
Perhaps this love of travel Mor ton
and their spouses. He was the kind of
inherited from his father, a war time
person who liked to give back,” said
hero and nav y man.
Vestergaard.
His father, Dudley W. Mor ton, was
Though Mor ton will be deeply
commander of the USS Wahoo during
missed, his mark has been made
World War II, a submarine which sunk
on the Academy and his generosity
the most enemy ships of its time.
and respec t for education will be
Dudley Mor ton was repor ted missing
remembered for years to come. He
in ac tion when his son was only four
is sur vived by his wife, his three
years old. The destroyer USS Mor ton
children, six grandchildren, his sister,
(DD-948) was named in his honor in
and numerous cousins and friends,
1958, the same year Doug Mor ton
and remembered with grateful hear ts
Ms. Linda Decormier
graduated from Cheshire Academy.
by the many faculty members who are
cheshireacademy.org/linda
or will be recipients of the Mor ton Doug Mor ton took a dif ferent
1930s
Mr. Felix E. Demar tini ’39
1940s Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Anthony Sessa ‘40 August E. Ranaudo ’48 Russell Benedic t ’48 Joseph Stephanak, Jr. ’48
1950s Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Charles Dietlin ‘50 Louis John Schuster III ‘55 David Perrotti ‘54 Ernest J. Bleau ’56 Stephen Weiss ‘55
1960s
Mr. Thomas G. Ela ‘68 Mr. Willis H. (Bill) Mitchell ’60
1980s
Mr. Matthew Barba ‘86
Faculty & Staff
Grant.
path than his father, however, and spent his career in publishing. Notes of remembrance may be left online at magazine.cheshireacademy.org/inmemoriam
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