James Roland Alexander Melville ’36 died on June 27, 2004, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Born on March 20, 1913, in New York City, he prepared for college at the Augusta Military Academy in Virginia and became a member of Chi Psi Fraternity at Bowdoin, which he attended from 1932 to 1934. He was a grant engineer with Ingersoll-Rand in Philipsburg, NJ, and for many years lived in New Jersey. He moved to Florida in 1975 and then to North Carolina in 1990.