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1956
Lee Scott Dewey
an attorney, who lived in Arlington, Va.,
died on February 2, 2014. He was 76
years old.
Mr. Dewey was born on August 26,
1937, and grew up in Memphis, Tenn., the
second child of Richard H. and LecLaire
(Grant) Dewey.
He entered the School out of East
High School in Memphis as a Fourth
Former in the fall of 1953. At SPS, he
served as president of the Spanish club,
La Junta, and was a member of the
Missionary Society. He was a lineman
for the Isthmian and SPS football teams
and also competed for the club in la-
crosse and basketball. He rowed with
Shattuck.
Mr. Dewey went on to earn both his
B.A. (1960) and his J.D. (1965) from
Vanderbilt University. He was married
on October 17, 1971, to Patricia Joan
Harkins. The marriage ended in divorce.
Mr. Dewey married his second wife,
Judith, in 1981 and together the couple
raised two sons, John Scott, born in
1982, and James “Patrick,” born in 1988.
That marriage also ended in divorce.
After serving as a Captain in the Judge
Advocate General’s Corp., in 1962 Mr.
Dewey joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission as chief counsel for the
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
He provided 39 years of government
service to that organization and con-
tinued working part-time as an admin-
istrative judge with the NRC after his
retirement. He also served as a mediator
for the electric utility industry in cases
involving nuclear-related controversies.
Outside of work, Mr. Dewey was a
volunteer for Christmas in April and
for St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arling-
ton, Va. He was a consistent supporter
of St. Paul’s School.
Mr. Dewey is survived by his son, John,
his daughter-in-law, Michelle, and his
grandson, Brennan; his son, Patrick; his
sister, Lynn Sohm; his brother, Richard
Dewey; his lasting friends, Judy Dewey
and Carol Smith; his niece and nephew-
in-law, Jaci and Sean; and many other
friends and family.
1958
Charles Dunn McKee Sr.
a respected money manager, avid sports-
man, and great supporter of St. Paul’s
School, died of cancer at his home in
Spring Island, S.C., on December 8, 2014.
Mr. McKee was born on June 26, 1940,
in Mount Kisco, N.Y., the youngest son of
Elliot Bates McKee of the Form of 1922
and Katharine Pillsbury McKee. He grew
up in New York and in Europe, where,
from 1952 to 1954, he attended Le Rosey
in Gstaad, Switzerland. He entered the
Third Form in 1954, rooming with Brian
McCauley. He was proud of his impec-
cable Chapel attendance and finding the
library after four years. He was a mem-
ber of the Missionary Society, the French
Club, the varsity cross country and track
teams, and served as a dorm supervisor
in his Sixth Form year. Playing club
hockey on the Lower School Pond black
ice was one of many fond memories of
his SPS years.
Mr. McKee entered Yale University,
majoring in French. He would latter
admit his major competed unsuccess-
fully with the Yale golf course for
attention. While at Yale, he met Nina
Carter Truslow, and the couple was
married in Taftville, Conn., on June 9,
1962. Sharing her husband’s love of
Millville, Nina eventually chaired the
grandparents’ appeal for the Alumni
Fund during her grandchildrens’ tenure
at the School.
Mr. McKee worked at Citibank in New
York City from 1962 to 1971, before
joining the urban exodus to Maine.
Settling in Brunswick and later Portland
and Prouts Neck, he was an officer at
Casco Northern Bank and joined Tucker
Anthony & RL Day, now RBC Wealth
Management, in the early 1980s as a
At SPS, Mr. Smith was a member of the
Acolyte Guild and the Missionary Society.
He also sang with the Glee Club, served
on the board of the
Pelican
, played foot-
ball and baseball for Old Hundred, and
was a dorm supervisor in the Lower
School.
Following his graduation from SPS,
Mr. Smith enlisted in the First Troop
Philadelphia City Calvary, a division of
the U.S. Army National Guard. In March
of 1957, he began active duty with the
U.S. Marine Corps.
After more than three years with the
Marines, Mr. Smith attended the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, where he served as
the undergraduate president of both the
St. Elmo Club of Philadelphia and the
Mask and Wig Club. He graduated from
Penn in 1963. For many years afterwards,
he continued to serve on both boards.
Mr. Smith soon embarked on his 51-
year career in the brokerage business,
working first with de Haven and Towns-
end, Crouter and Bodine and devoting
his final 30 years as a financial advisor
and branch manager with Janney Mont-
gomery Scott. For many years, he served
as a member of the board of governors
for the Investment Traders Association
of Philadelphia.
Mr. Smith is survived by his beloved
wife of 50 years, Mary I. “Siddy” Smith;
his son, Brint, and his daughter-in-law,
Gretchen; his daughter, Eliza, his son-
in-law, John Scheck; and his son, Norris,
and his daughter-in-law, Staci; his
grandchildren, Griffin, Mia, and Henry
Smith and Zachary Scheck; and his sis-
ter, Lalla deRham.
In addition to his father, Mr. Smith’s
SPS relations included his grandfather,
Paul D. Mills (1894), his uncles, Geoffrey
S. Smith (1918) and John S. Smith (1922),
his half-brothers, Paul M. Ingersoll ’46
and Henry McK. Ingersoll ’47, and his
brothers-in-law, Thomas Claytor ’55
and Norris V. Claytor ’57.
