Hugh Nevin Scott ’50

Hugh Scott died Dec. 23, 1998, after a valiant sixmonth battle with lung cancer. He joined the class with 20 others from Deerfield, where he was very much a leader: class officer, president of debating, Glee Club member, junior cum laude, and letterman in football, tennis, and squash, the latter becoming a lifelong passion. In later years he was senior men's champion at the Metropolitan Club in Washington.

At Princeton he joined Cottage and continued with his tennis and squash. He graduated with honors in S.P.I.A. Academic achievement also marked his Harvard Law School years, where he was a member of the Law Review.

After Army service his whole career, except for two years at Sullivan & Cromwell, was in Washington, D.C., with the legal department of the World Bank.

Hugh retired in 1992. In retirement he enjoyed gardening, tennis, and pursuing his curiosity about and admiration of the natural world. He spent summers in the Adirondacks, weekends at Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., and winters in Naples, Fla.

In 1966 he married Sandy Korff, with whom he shared 32 happy years, marred only by the death of son Zander, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska the month after his Princeton graduation in 1992. To Sandy, daughters Lizy and Laura '98, and brother Don '51, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1950