Eugene Darling Jr.
Eugene M. Darling, Jr., who served for 28 years as an environmental scientist with the federal government, died on February 12, 2023 at the age of 98.
Darling grew up in Wellesley as the son of the late E. Merrill Darling and Barbara T. Darling. After graduating from Wellesley High School in 1943, he served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. He received an A.B. degree in mathematics from Harvard College in 1948 and an M.S. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, where he was elected to the Sigma Xi Honor Society.
In the 1950s at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in Bedford, he studied the effect of meteorological factors on the performance of weapon systems. In the 1960s, he conducted research on the utilization of meteorological satellite data at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He later worked on artificial intelligence problems at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge. In the 1970s, he was chief of the Environmental Technology branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation, a position he held until his retirement in 1980.
Darling served on the Board of Directors of the MIT Club of Boston for 25 years. He was a member of the Massachusetts Orchid Society and a founder of the New England chapter of the Indoor Light Gardening Society of America. He was especially fond of classic jazz and lectured annually at the Lincoln Library classic jazz series. He lived in Lincoln for many years and enjoyed a winter residence in Sarasota, Fla.
He leaves his sister, Patricia D. Andrews of South Bend, Ind., his nephew, Bruce L. Monteith of Ocala, Fla., and his niece, Teri S. Cousino of Berlin, Conn. Burial with U.S. Army military honors at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge will be private.
Arrangements are under the care of Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary. For Darling’s online guestbook, please visit www.DeeFuneralHome.com.
Nice man!