Samuel Halcomb Coombs ’44


Samuel Halcomb Coombs ’44 died on May 21 at the Sedgebrook Health Center in Illinois after a lengthy battle with cancer. During the war years at Dartmouth he taught Navy and Marine enlistees and earned his M.A. in physics. He was the founder and president of Coombs Associates, an electronics manufacturers’ representative firm from 1970 to 1994. He was an avid tennis player, sailor and runner and spent summers on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and winters in Naples, Florida. His memories of his youth spent at Camp Dudley in Westport, New York, never left him; the camp motto “Other Fellow First” guided him throughout his life. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Ann, six children and 12 grandchildren.