Christopher Prescott Wilson ’52

Christopher Prescott Wilson ’52, a resident of Aiken, South Carolina, and Cabot, Vermont, and formerly of Southampton, New York, died on January 9, 2015, in Augusta, Georgia. Born in Oceanside, New York, Chris grew up in Baldwin, New York, and graduated from Baldwin High School. He then graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in economics, served for 11 years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Reserves, including a tour in Alaska with the 30th Topographic Battalion, and finally earned a master’s in guidance and counseling from Columbia University. He was a high school teacher and guidance counselor for 32 years and director of guidance at Southampton High School from 1962 to 1988. Chris loved to play baseball as a youth, was a talented wrestler in high school and was an excellent skier and avid sailor. Experienced in home construction, he was very active with Habitat for Humanity and other civic activities on eastern Long Island. He and his family very much enjoyed travel, camping, living by the bays and ocean on Long Island and the lakes and mountains of Vermont. Dorothy, a high school English teacher and his wife of 52 years, survives him, as do children Jeffrey, Craig ’87 and Robin, their spouses and eight grandchildren. His father, the late Clyde M. Wilson ’11, and brother, the late M. Carr Wilson ’41, were also Dartmouth graduates.