David Cameron Duncombe ’52

David Cameron Duncombe ’52 passed away at home in White Salmon, Washington, on June 18. David grew up and went to public school in Katonah, New York, where he met and married his wife of 47 years, Sally, in 1958. Sally passed away in 2005. After serving in the Army he entered Dartmouth, where he majored in government and was active in the Dartmouth Christian Fellowship and the DOC. He then began a career in ministry and higher education, first at Yale University, where he earned a doctorate and then at the University of California in San Francisco, becoming a chaplain to medical students and a teacher of chaplains at both institutions. He was ordained to the ministry in the United Church of Christ in 1958. David was better known in later life as a social activist. Passionate about social justice, he was arrested numerous times in the San Francisco area for blocking munitions trains and trucks bound for Central America. Following a few brief incarcerations, he and his wife moved to White Salmon for retirement. David has been more recently known for his long political fasts, the last three being in Washington, D.C., supporting debt relief for impoverished nations. Surviving him are his children, Betsy, Jane and Steve and four grandchildren. It was David’s wish that his body be used for medical dissection, as he had spent the last 25 years of his working life as a part-time lab assistant in medical schools.