Don H. Irvine ’46 died on April 29, 2009, in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

He was born on April 22, 1923, in Washington, D.C., and prepared for college at Central (Washington) High School and West Nottingham Academy in Maryland. He had attended Bowdoin for one year, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, when he joined the Naval Reserve Air Corps during World War II. He did not return to Bowdoin, so he was awarded a Certificate of Honor in 1946.