Walter Russell Daggart ’43

Walter Russell Daggart ’43 died May 16 in Rancho Mirage, California. Walt graduated from Grant High School in Portland, Oregon. At Dartmouth he majored in economics, was a Senior Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Vigilantes, Phi Gamma Delta and Sphinx and played freshman basketball and baseball. After the Marine Corps Walt became president and later chairman of Alpac Corp. (largely soft drinks) in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; Honolulu; and Tokyo. He retired in the 1980s. Walt was one of the men who brought the original Sounders soccer franchise to Seattle in the 1970s. As part of the ownership group he worked to increase public interest in the league, which eventually played in the Kingdome before large crowds. The group sold its franchise in 1974. Walt served as board president of the Seattle-King County Boys & Girls Club in the early 1970s and was president of the Seattle Golf Club in the early 1990s—he was an excellent golfer, and made seven holes in one. After the death of his first wife, Marjorie, the mother of his four children, he married Janet, who survives him, as do three of his sons. His son Peter predeceased him.