Malcolm James Simpson ’48

Malcolm James Simpson ’48 died May 13 in Asbury Villas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family by his side. “Mac” was in the Navy V-12 during World War II and was sent to pre-flight school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when the war ended. He returned to Dartmouth, where he graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1948, was a member of Beta Theta Pi and played on our championship basketball team. In 1956 he earned a master’s in education from the University of Delaware. He was a founding member of West Essex Regional Senior High School in North Caldwell, New Jersey, where he served as department head math teacher from 1961 to l969 and then as principal from 1969 to 1989. During his teaching career Mac was also an adjunct math professor of advanced calculus at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. During the summers of 1963 to 1965 he worked as a mathematician at Bell Telephone Labs, and during the summers of 1966 to 1968 as a consultant to the Commission of Engineering Education in Washington, D.C. He was president of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association from 1982 to 1983 and was a 57-year master mason of Essex Lodge No 7. He was predeceased by Betty, his wife of 38 years. He is survived by daughter Drue and her husband, Tony; son Matthew and his wife, Jeanette; daughter Beth and her husband, Wesley; niece Linda and her husband, Michael; nephew Jeffrey and his wife, Susan.