Allen Vander Meulen Jr. ’75 PhD

Allen Vander Meulen Jr. ’75 PhD, of Lincoln, Mass., formerly of Brattleboro, Vt.; Nov. 22. He was a minister at Third Congregational Church in Waterbury, Conn., from 1958 to 1963, then at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, Vt., until 1968, when he served as an interim minister throughout Massachusetts while attending Brown. In 1978 he joined the faculty at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., as a professor of economics. He helped establish the school’s computer science department and MBA program. He retired in 1997 and returned to Brattleboro, where he served as chair of the Centre Congregational Church’s endowment committee and as a trustee for the town library. He enjoyed biking, traveling, and conversing about philosophy, ethics, and politics. He and his wife moved to Lincoln in 2019. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; daughter and son-in-law; two sons and daughters-in-law; and four grandchildren.