John H. Scott Jr. ’45

Jack Scott died June 5, 2013.

He entered Princeton from Exeter, where he had been manager of the basketball team. He joined Cottage Club, but his studies were interrupted for military service as an air-traffic-control specialist and cryptographer in Egypt, Libya, and Turkey. Returning to Princeton, he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1948 and entered Cornell Law School, from which he graduated in 1953. He joined the large Pittsburgh law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, where he practiced law until his retirement in 1989.

In 1954, Jack married Jean McDougall of Australia. In addition to his home in Pittsburgh, Jack and Jean maintained a home in Nantucket, where he belonged to the Nantucket Yacht Club and the Sankaty Head Golf Club.

In addition to Jean, Jack is survived by his daughter, Diana; son Hugh; and his sister, Marcia Butterwick. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.