Joseph H. Santarlasci Jr. ’67

Joseph H. Santarlasci Jr. ’67, of Brooklyn, N.Y., formerly of Barrington, R.I.; Oct. 29. At Brown he was a member of ROTC, the men’s hockey team, and Delta Phi. After Brown, he served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant from 1967 to 1971 with two tours of duty in Vietnam and was awarded the Vietnamese Medal of Honor. He was the duty officer during the recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts when they splashed down in the Pacific in 1969. He then attended and graduated from the University of Virginia and began working as an investment banker at First Chicago. He later moved to New York City, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions at several investment banks, including Smith Barney. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1985 to cofound the turnaround management firm Whitby, Santarlasci & Co., Inc. There, he married and started a family before moving to Barrington in 2013 to teach entrepreneurial finance at Bryant University. After he stopped teaching, he stayed in touch with his students and continued to help them along their journeys. In 2018, he was instrumental in the founding of the Brown University Veterans Alumni Council and served as its copresident. He and his wife moved to Brooklyn in 2021 to join their sons. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two sons; a brother and sister-in-law; two nieces; and a nephew