James D. Dougherty ’58

James D. Dougherty ’58 died at Shelter Island, New York, on August 19, 2023. Jim majored in government, was president of Delta Upsilon, and served on the Interfraternity Council. After two years in the Navy he earned a law degree at Columbia and practiced law for 20 years. He later completed an advanced management program at Harvard and joined Supermarkets General Corp. (Pathmark), where he became company president in 1987. Jim had a vacation home on Shelter Island and moved there full-time in 2001. He was chairman of the local chapter of the Nature Conservancy and served six two-year terms as town supervisor with a passion for preserving open space and the island’s unique environment. In retirement Jim said he “teamed up with the Dartmouth environmental studies program, endowing a modest fund…assisting students to pursue off-campus initiatives relevant to their environmental studies.” He also was a volunteer on short-term assignments for Project Hope in Riga, Latvia, and for International Executive Service Corps in Siberia and Cairo. Jim’s wife, Nancy, passed away in 2013.