Douglas Dixon (source: 1967 Corks & Curls)
Douglas S. Dixon (1955 in Rome, GA – October 9, 1990 in Washington, DC) was president of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1966-1967 season. While at the University of Virginia, he was president of Delta Sigma Phi, and was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and the Virginia Gentlemen. He was an Echols Scholar.[1]
After graduating from UVA in 1967 with an English degree, he returned and studied medicine, graduating in 1991. He interned at George Washington University Hospital and the DC Medical Examiner's office, then served in the Army Medical Corps from 1975 to 1979. During that period, he worked on the investigation of the runway crash in Teneriffe and the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana, and attained the rank of major. He then joined the DC Medical Examiner's office in 1979 as a deputy medical examiner, where he led the investigation into the January 1982 Air Florida plane crash, and served as the acting chief medical examiner in 1983 and 1984. He concluded his career with tours as the associate chief medical examiner of Massachusetts and as a forensic pathologist in San Diego before resigning in November of 1989. He died in 1990 of AIDS.[2]
References
- ↑ Corks and Curls. LXXIX. 1967. pp. 258-259.
- ↑ Pearson, Richard (1990-10-09). "Douglas Dixon Dies, was Top DC Coroner". Washington Post: p. B7. https://secure.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72623508.html?FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+9%2C+1990&author=Richard+Pearson&desc=Douglas+Dixon+Dies%3B+Was+Top+D.C.+Coroner.