Frederic Donald Selbie Jr. ’42

Don Selbie died Feb. 12, 2013.

Don prepared at the Peddie School. At Princeton he was a star on the track team, competing successfully in relays and middle-distance running events. He joined Charter Club and majored in politics.

The war diverted Don from politics into technology. Shortly after graduation he entered into training as a radar countermeasure officer. On completion of the course he became a member of bombing crews in the India-China-Burma theater. Don’s job was to jam hostile radar as his plane flew over Japanese installations.

Don remained with the Air Force, serving at Strategic Air Command bases in the United States and England. After retiring as a colonel in 1968, he joined Martin Marietta Corp., from which he retired as a vice president in 1986. During 1975–76 he took a leave of absence to serve at the Pentagon as director of the General Defense Intelligence Program.

Don’s wife Joyce died in 2005 after 63 years of marriage. Don then married Jane Lohmann, who survives him, as do his sons, Ric and Joe; daughter Theodora O’Brien; and stepchildren Carol and Pat Lohman. To them all, the class sends condolences.