Charles Dabney Scoville ’52

Charles Dabney Scoville ’52 died on November 27, 2007, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Born in Hartford on September 24, 1929, he prepared for college at the Taft School in Connecticut and became a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his graduation, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1952-54, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He joined his father in business as an independent insurance adjuster from 1955 to 1972, when he became a senior home office adjuster with Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Company in Hartford. He retired in 1991. He was a referee with the West Hartford boy’s football and soccer leagues and was a volunteer with the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Meals on Wheels, and the Talcott Mountain Music Festival. In Bowdoin affairs, he was Class Agent for 1952 in the Alumni Fund from 1957 to 1968. He is survived by his wife, Carol (Willis) Scoville, whom he married in 1987; a daughter, Deirdre Legault of Manchester, Conn.; two sons, Charles D. Scoville, Jr. of Colleyville, Texas, and Kevin S. Scoville of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Jean D. Heminway of Ashland, Mass., and Nancy L. Krampetz of Concord, Calif.; eight grandchildren; a great-grandson; and a brother,William H. Scoville, II, of Tequesta, Fla.