Donald Alastair Mackay ’68

Alastair died at home in Toronto, April 4, 2004, after a valiant five-year battle with chondrosarcoma, a rare cartilage cancer. He prepared at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland. At Princeton, he majored in English and lived and ate at Colonial, rooming with Ed Cox his senior year. Ed remembered him well: "Alastair was a wonderful human being with a tremendous wry sense of humor, and a terrific guy to be around."

As one of six Canadians in the class, he was blessed by not having to worry about the draft, and taught English to new Canadians his first year out of college, followed by extensive travel. He worked for real-estate development firms before going out on his own in the development business in the late 1970s. Alastair maintained a lifelong interest in architecture, historic-house restoration, drama, the arts, and travel.

He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Brenda Reid, and two brothers, Ian and Keiller. To them, the class extends its profound sympathy.

The Class of 1968