Deceased Alumni: Westfield, James (1956)
Date Of Birth: Nov-21-1937
Date Deceased: April-11-2003
Age at Death: 65
Cause of Death: prostate cancer
Alumni City: Sandwich
Alumni State: MA
Alumni Country: USA
Survived By: Dolores Chambers Westfield Katherine Phelps Susan Hendy Robin Westfield Vicki Nurse

Wonderful husband and father for 43 years. PHD University of Michigan in public health and environmental engineering. Partner, marketer, project manager and consultant for several US companies. involved in international environmental, infrastructure and industrial pollution projects. Lived in Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan. An adventurer enjoying skydiving, sailboarding and flying powered parachutes, trap shooting, rollerblading

Cape Cod Times:

James D. Westfield, 65 Formerly of Sandwich co-owned DSI adventurerVIENNA, Va. - James D. Westfield, 65, a former Sandwich resident, died April 11 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of complications of cancer.Mr. Westfield was born in Seattle, graduated from Boulder City High School in Nevada in 1956 and the University of Nevada in 1961 and received a doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan in 1967. In 1971, he relocated to Sandwich from Virginia and was co-owner of Development Sciences Inc., an environmental consulting company based in Sagamore. He also managed the construction of the DSI building and participated in numerous engineering studies for the town of Sandwich. While his daughters attended Sandwich public schools, he was an enthusiastic supporter of their sports and activities.For a majority of his career, Mr. Westfield worked for a variety of Washington, D.C.-based companies. Many of these projects were contract operations for the Agency for International Development and the World Bank. For his work, he traveled extensively outside the United States and lived in Columbia, Pakistan and Egypt. He recently retired from PA Consulting in Washington, D.C., where he organized and managed the Alexandria Water General Authority Institutional Strengthening Project in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Vienna Presbyterian Church in Virginia. Throughout his life, he was also an adventurer. He was an accomplished skydiver and sailboarder and recently began flying a powered parachute.Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Dolores (Chambers) Westfield four daughters, Katherine Phelps of Plympton, Susan Hend Vicki Nurse, both of Sandwich, and Robin Westfield of Denver, Colo. a sister, Joan James of Seattle and seven grandchildren.A memorial service is at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Church of Christ, Sandwich.