Roy Curtis Megargel ’52

Roy Curtis Megargel ’52 of Essex, Maryland, died at home on September 22, 2018. Roy was born in New York City on September 5, 1930. He prepared for college at the South Kent School in Connecticut and then graduated from Dartmouth, where he majored in English and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and the NROTC. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for two years, Roy graduated from Harvard Law in 1957. He then practiced law for several years and had a successful legal and business career, including a term with General Telephone International, and retired in 1988 as president of General Tire International. Taking Joseph Campbell’s dictate to heart—“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls”—Roy followed his bliss aboard his sailboat, the CAL39 Artemis, making two transatlantic passages and living aboard her for nine years. He cruised with his wife of 39 years, Diane, and they then settled in Middle River, Maryland. Holding membership in several yacht clubs through his life, Roy was most proud of the Offshore Cruising Club. Roy’s first boat was Skate, which he built with his lifelong friend, Bucky. He particularly loved sailing Wood’s Hole and Hadley Harbor on a passage to Buzzard’s Bay in Massachusetts. Roy is survived by Diane, daughter Katie, son Ralph, stepdaughter Leslie, stepson Craig, and five grandchildren.