Douglas M. Swift Jr. ’59

Doug died April 25, 2016, in Winchester, Va., from complications due to Parkinson’s disease.

At Princeton, Doug majored in economics, dined at Quadrangle, and sang in the Chapel Choir. He stepped out in the University band, was active in Orange Key, and rowed through freshman year with the 150-pound crew. He was appointed assistant operations officer of the NROTC unit his senior year (his father was a rear admiral). After graduation, he served three years on destroyer duty, including deployments to the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf.

Following release from active duty, he earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1965, and thereafter practiced law in Winchester, Va., both in firms and as a sole practitioner, until he retired in 2002.

Doug served as president of his local bar association and as chairman of the Virginia Bar Association’s Domestic Relations Section. An avid fisherman, he spent portions of his summers in Vermont as a third-generation member of the Wantastiquet (Vt.) Trout Club, trying to outsmart the pond denizens with his self-tied flies.

Thrice married, thrice divorced, Doug was single at the time of his death. The class extends its sympathy to his daughters, Emily Tackett and Perry McAlister; and his grandsons, Reece and Cullen McAlister.