Donald A. Scott ’51

Don was born Oct. 17, 1929, to Grace Nevin Scott and Garfield Scott 1903. He prepared at William Penn Charter School and Deerfield Academy, earned his degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, and graduated from Princeton with honors. Don was captain of the squash team and belonged to Cottage. He roomed with John Davis, Ed deConingh, Bill Dwight, Clint Gilbert, Don Mathey, Gerry Mayer, Neil McConnell, Ralph Peters, and John White.

After graduation he served for two years on the USS Corregidor. Don earned a law degree in 1956 from Harvard, where he was on the law review, won the Harvard squash championship in 1954, and graduated magna cum laude. In 1955, he and Jeanne Cooper were married.

After serving for a year as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand, Don joined the Philadelphia law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1957 and became a partner in 1964. The firm had 60 lawyers when he first joined, and by the time he retired in 1998, there were 1,000.

Don died April 14, 2014, and is survived by his children, Allison ’78, Andrew, Jack, and Lindsay; nine grandchildren; son-in-law Michael Stein ’78; and niece Laura Scott Caputo ’98. His wife, Jeanne, and brother Hugh ’50 predeceased him.