JOHN PORTEUS SAWYER, who was born in Hanover, March 2, 1952, and christened at the Church of Christ, died August 30 at his home in Boston after a long cancer illness.  He was 33 years old.  He was brought up in Winchester, MA and prepared for Dartmouth at Winchester High School.

A specialist in American art, John had been associated for several years with the Arvest galleries.

While a student at Dartmouth, where he majored in psychology and minored in art, John and a classmate bicycled in the summer of 1972 across the United States from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, spanning the 3,100 miles in 31 days.  As an upperclassman, he also led bicycling sections of the three-day freshman trips operated by the Dartmouth Outing Club, of which he was a member.  He also worked in the hometown bureau of the Dartmouth News Service.

He leaves his mother, Mrs. Barbara K. Sawyer of Hanover, retired executive secretary for the dean of the faculty of art and sciences at Dartmouth; his father, Richard A. Sawyer of Northhampton, MA; a brother, Richard A. Sawyer, Jr. ''70 of Provincetown, MA; a grandmother, Mrs. Corrine Sawyer, formerly of Lebanon, NH, now of Northhampton, MA; and two uncles, Robert N. Sawyer '37 of Woodstock, VT and Robert P Kenney of Aurora, OH.

Contributions may be made in John's memory to David's House, PO Box 768, Hanover, NH 03755.  David's House is a temporary home for parents of chlldren hospitalized at the the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

                                                                           ROBERT B. GRAHAM, JR. '40, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine