Daniel Eggleston Dick, Callahan Fay Brothers, July 27, 2010

Daniel Eggleston Dick

Callahan Fay Brothers
July 27, 2010

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Daniel Eggleston Dick, born April 22, 1924, died at the age of 86 on July 26, 2010. Surrounded by family and close friends, he died at home after a long and arduous struggle with myeloblastic leukemia.

He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Marjory Stephenson Dick, nine children: Gary Tondorf-Dick and wife, Mary, Carol Dick Buell and husband, Paul, Marjory Dick Masterman and husband Craig, John Dick and wife, Gail Davis, Peter Dick and wife, Mo Scollan, Joseph Dick and wife, Michele Maykel, Mary Dick, Katherine Dick Brosier and husband, Daniel, and Elizabeth Dick Ancarana and husband, Michael, 14 grandchildren: Daniel Tondorf-Dick, David Tondorf-Dick, Susannah Henkel, Emily Noreiga, Ann Masterman, Rachel Masterman, Andrew Masterman, Zachary Davis, Maya Davis, Lillian Brown, Samuel Brosier, Emma Brosier, Paul Ancarana, and William Ancarana, and one great grandchild: Micah Noreiga.

Daniel was born in Worcester, the son of Florence and George Dick. He graduated from North High School in 1942, and earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Amherst College in 1946. Following this, he earned a master's degree in Forestry from Yale University in 1949, and 20 years later earned another graduate degree in library science from the University of Rhode Island. He served in the Navy in WWII and completed his education under the GI bill.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel was a partner in Dick Brothers, a church interior and architectural woodwork firm on Dewey Street. He also became extremely active in the peace movement, as well as the Floating Parish and women's liberation.

Toward the end of the 1960s, he became the reference librarian and creator of the Energy Studies curriculum at Worcester State College, and worked as an officer in the faculty union. His avocation was building and sailing wooden boats.

Throughout his life, Daniel was active in several nonprofit organizations: the International Society, Architectural Woodwork Institute, Worcester Natural History Society and Science Center, Worcester Art Museum (Members' Council), Craft Center, Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, the Phoenix and the Floating Parish, the Catholic Worker, several Catholic reform groups, the Worcester-Pushkin Sister City Project, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Worcester Common Ground, the Senior Center, the Regional Environmental Council, Tatnuck Brook Watershed Association, Massachusetts Congress of Lakes & Ponds, the Associations of Lake Quaboag/Quacumquasit, Lake Quinsigamond and Webster Lake.

In the 1990s, Dan was responsible for garnering the enthusiasm to build the dam on Coes Reservoir. He spent his life cultivating and preserving all things Worcester, and on the last day of his life he received a key to the city from Mayor Joseph C. O'Brien. Dan was known as a frequent contributor to the Letters to the Editor of the Telegram & Gazette; ironically, his final contribution was published the day after he died, thereby getting the last word!

Funeral arrangements are being made by the CALLAHAN & FAY BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME, 61 Myrtle St., where calling hours will be held from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Thursday, July 29, 2010. There will be a funeral Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, 551 Pleasant St., on Friday, July 30, 2010, at 10:00 AM followed by burial at St. John's Cemetery.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Women's Ordination Conference, PO Box 15057, Washington, DC 20003 or to Dismas House, 30 Richards Street, Worcester, MA 01603. For directions and online condolence book, please visit