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A member of the 5th Marine Division,
he served in the Battle of Iwo Jima and in
the occupation of Japan. Following the
war, he joined the Scott Paper Company
as a salesman. After holding numerous
positions, including time as president of
British Columbia Forest Products, he
became chairman and CEO of Scott Paper
in 1971, a position he held for 11 years
before retiring in 1983. He was a board
member of General Electric, J.P. Morgan,
and Cigna and also served as chairman
of the Smithsonian National Board and
for numerous other civic organizations.
A former trustee of the University of
Pennsylvania, he received an honorary
LL.D. from the school in 1987.
Mr. Dickey was an avid beekeeper and
fly fisherman. He thrived in Maine at
“Soundings,” the summer place on Mount
Desert Island, where afternoon sails on
Tyee were the order of the day. He de-
voured books on history and biographies
of great leaders. He valued personal rela-
tionships, hard work, humility, and integrity.
He is survived by his beloved wife of
65 years, Helen “Rogie”; his five children,
Charley Dickey, Heidi Fitz, Sylvia Whitman,
Catherine Dickey, and Rob Dickey ’79; their
spouses; 15 grandchildren, including fifth-
generation SPS students Kyle Dickey ’13
and Charles Dickey ’15; and one great-
grandson. He is also survived by his sisters,
Mary Lindsay and Cathy Dickey. His bro-
ther, Stephen “Whit” Dickey ’42, passed
away on February 21, 2013.
1937
Colton Wagner
a World War II
veteran, Harvard
graduate, and
dedicated philan-
thropist, passed
away on January
4, 2013.
Raised in New
York City, he
attended Aiken
Preparatory School before enrolling at
St. Paul’s School in the Second Form. In
a college recommendation letter from
school faculty, he was noted as “one of
the ablest boys in this year’s graduating
class. Though somewhat shy at first, his
friendship is well worth cultivating and
he has much to give both in character
and intellectual ability.”
Mr. Wagner received high marks in
school and was a member of the Acolyte’s
Guild, the Cadmean/Concordian Society,
and the Science Society. He competed
with Old Hundred. He kept close ties to
the School, serving as a trustee, leading
fundraising activities, helping with con-
servation efforts, and supporting increased
opportunities for female students.
Mr. Wagner went on to attend Harvard
College, graduating magna cum laude
with a degree in fine arts in 1941. He en-
listed in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1940
and was called to active duty just after
graduation. During World War II, he served
as an executive officer on the U.S.S. Slater
in the Atlantic, European, and Pacific arenas.
He then attended Harvard Law School,
graduating in 1948 and going on to prac-
tice personal and corporate law in New
York. He married Carley Havemeyer that
same year. He became a partner in the
firm Humes, Andrews & Botzow in 1970.
In 1993, Mr. Wagner was made an
honorary member of the British Empire
for his work on behalf of the St. George’s
Society, for which he served as president
from 1988 to 1990. He was lauded for
transforming the society into “a strong
and energetic organization, well-sup-
ported and well-funded and hence able
to promote its invaluable charity work.”
He was also praised for greatly increas-
ing membership in the society during his
45 years as a member.
Mr. Wagner enjoyed fly fishing, birding,
collecting Stevengraph silk pictures, and
conservationist activities. He leaves behind
two sons, Charles Wagner ’70 and Steph-
en Wagner; a daughter, Nancy Mixter; and
four grandchildren. He was predeceased
by his wife in 2009.
1938
Romeyn Everdell
a World War II Navy pilot, died on January
3, 2013, at his home in Boston, Mass. He
was 92.
Born on June 24, 1920, in New York City,
he enrolled at St. Paul’s School in the fall
of 1933. He was a member of the Library
Association and the Cadmean/Concord-
ian Society. He competed with Delphian
and rowed with Shattuck, serving as
captain of his crew.
Mr. Everdell attended Williams College,
where he was active in numerous clubs
and sports. He graduated cum laude in
1942 with a degree in chemistry. After
graduation, he served as a Navy pilot in
World War II and was awarded a Navy
Cross for combat flying in the Pacific.
Relatives say his unit was taken off the
carrier Franklin just before it was hit by
one of the first kamikazes.
After the war, Mr. Everdell went to
work as a quality control technician at
Union Carbide in Bound Brook, N.J., for
four years, then as a production super-
visor at Boston Woven Hose & Rubber
Co. in Cambridge, Mass. In 1953, he was
hired as a management consultant at
Rath & Strong, Inc., in Lexington, Mass.
He retired as executive vice president
in 1985. Management consulting was a
relatively new field at the time, and he
excelled at it. In fact, the Production and
Inventory Control Quarterly named one of
the profession’s awards after Mr. Everdell.
Mr. Everdell married Sylvia Shethar in
1945. The couple shared a love of sailing.
In addition to sailboat racing, Mr. Everdell
enjoyed alpine skiing and hiking. “Life has
been good to us,” he wrote on a St. Paul’s
School questionnaire completed after his
retirement. Mr. Everdell’s sense of humor
shone through in the questionnaire, where
he listed his current professional activi-
ties as “eclectic hedonism.”
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