Donald Scott Coombs ’83

Donald Scott Coombs ’83 died November 10, 2017, 10 days after a traffic accident, while living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At Dartmouth Scott was a Russian language and literature major and minored in computer science. He was also actively involved in the Gay Students Association. After graduation Scott worked for a number of financial institutions on Wall Street as a programmer. He enjoyed extensive travel, teaching himself new languages, and experimented with computer languages. He was active in online communities involving open-source computing projects. For the past 10 years Scott called Brazil his home. He became a successful translator while helping those around him improve their language skills. He taught English to his partner, Diogo Jacintho Barbosa, who survives him. He is also survived by his mother, his birth mother, his sister and her husband, and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Donations in his memory can be made to amfAR at Philanthropy, amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, 120 Wall St, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10005-3902 or www.amfar.org/donate.