Harold M. Scott ’41

“Scotty” died Feb. 20, 2016, in Brunswick, Maine. He was 97.

Scotty prepared for Princeton at The Hill School. He majored in politics and graduated with honors. He was a member of Cap and Gown Club and participated in intercollegiate dinghy racing.

After graduation he began Navy officer training, concentrating on anti-submarine warfare in the Atlantic and small-craft duty on the Maine coast. A two-year assignment with the Pacific fleet destroyers earned him 11 battle stars. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal as gunnery officer of his ship through the Okinawa campaign.

His career started in sales and advertising for a national plastics corporation, and he later opened his own business in Stamford, Conn., fabricating laminated plastics for 26 years. Scotty’s lifelong interest was in sailing, especially on the Maine coast.

Scotty was married to Mary Kent Davis and they had three children, Harold M. Scott III, Olivia Scott Hurd, and Manton Davis Scott, who died in 1973. He was happy to count five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and five stepchildren in his family. Kathy Curry, his wife of 17 years, survives him.