Douglas S. Copeland ’44

Douglas S. Copeland died of congestive heart failure May 25, 1995, in Houston, Tex., where he had made his home. He was 72.

He prepared at Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton, he majored in geology and belonged to Key and Seal. By reputation, he was a good athlete at the club level and was said to be the #1 table tennis player on Prospect St. He roomed with J. Henley until he left Princeton to do three years duty as a field artillery officer in the Pacific theater, followed by six months in an aviation engineer battalion building airports in Japan. After discharge as a first lt. in 1946, he returned to Princeton, received a BA in geology and joined Gulf Research and Development for whom he worked as a geophysicist for 32 years. He retired in 1980. During that period, he spent seven years overseas, primarily in Venezuela and Australia. He was an avid golfer and actively involved in Houston's St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

To his brothers, James D. '41 and Arch H., two sisters, Ellen Wilk and Martha Jane Likens, the class extends its condolences.

The Class of 1944