Percy H. Russell Jr. ’63

Percy H. Russell Jr. ’63 passed away February 15 from Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. He was born in Washington, D.C., to Percy Sr. ’29 and Marjorie and attended Woodrow Wilson High, where he ran track and cross country. At Dartmouth “Terry” majored in government and was a member of Navy ROTC and a brother of Alpha Chi. After Dartmouth Terry served as an officer aboard USS Shasta; attended training at Naval Justice School, where he found his calling; and received his J.D. from George Washington University. He worked for the U.S. attorney’s office as deputy chief of the felony trials division, where he took action that changed the nation’s treatment of crime victims, and then became the director of President Ronald Reagan’s task force on victims of crime. In 1987 he became General counsel for the White House Conference for a Drug Free America and later acted as managing director for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which developed the AmeriCorps program. In 1997 he and his second wife, Diane, moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he helped lead Save the Children. He was a very active member as class officer from 2006 to 2022 and as an alumni fund volunteer most of that time. He became the general director of the Dartmouth College Fund from 2003 to 2019, when his health problems became difficult. He is survived by Diane, former wife Anne, five children, and seven grandchildren.