Dick Scroggins

DICK SCROGGINS corporate real estate executive, avid sailor, and longtime Greenwich, CT. resident, passed away on September 9, He was 75 years old. The cause was cancer, his family announced. Mr. Scroggins retired in 1996 as senior vice president, Corporate Real Estate & General Services, American Express Company, after a 37 year career in corporate real estate. In 1982, the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, NACORE, certified him a Master of Corporate Real Estate. At American Express, he headed an organization responsible for a number of major real estate projects worldwide including regional operating centers and two headquarters buildings in New York City. In 1992, he was honored by his peers as the first winner of the NACORE New York Annual Award for Outstanding Corporate Real Estate Executive. He served as president of the NACORE New York chapter, and as a director of NACORE International. He served as chair of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Greater New York and also of the Heritage Trail of Lower Manhattan. He was a director of the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association and was a member of the Advisory Committee - Plan for Lower Manhattan. In 1992 he was presented a Certificate of Appreciation by David Dinkins, Mayor of New York, for his "leading role in the City's vital real estate industry, and for his expertise to the not-for-profit sector for the benefit of all New Yorkers". Richard Muir Scroggins was born December 11, 1932 in Detroit. He is the son of Florence Scroggins of Ridgefield, and the late Olin Scroggins of Farmington, Michigan. Mr. Scroggins joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in May 1950, and served on active duty at the Grosse Isle Naval Air Station. In September 1951, he was accepted into the Navy ROTC Program at the University of Michigan where he earned a bachelors degree in business administration. He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. In June 1955 he was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps. After completing six months of platoon leader training, he was assigned as adjutant of the headquarters squadron, Marine Corps Air Facility, New River, North Carolina. On June 30, 1956 he married Jeanne Joslyn, a career teacher from Sycamore, Illinois. Mrs. Scroggins died in 2004. After release from active duty, Mr. Scroggins held sales and real estate positions at Shell Oil Company, Burroughs Corporation and Ford Motor Company. In 1969 he was assigned to head the dealership real estate program for Ford of Europe, based in London. He returned to the U.S. in 1974 to become director of Leasing & Property Management at Ford Motor Land Development Corporation. He joined American Express in 1975 as vice president, Real Estate. Mr. Scroggins and his family owned several sailboats that made passages on the North Sea and along the Atlantic Coast. He is a member of the Greenwich Boat & Yacht Club, the Islamorada Fishing Club and the Marine Corps League. He is a 25-year member of the First Church of Round Hill where he served as trustee and chair of the Endowment Committee. He also served for a number of years as president of the Rockview Drive Association. Surviving are his mother, daughters, Laura Scroggins Wolf of Marstons Mills, Mass., Lisa Scroggins Lee of Ridgefield,CT., Sarah Scroggins Zejda of Stamford, CT. and four grandchildren. Burial will be private. A service to celebrate his life will be held on October 3, 11a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, Greenwich, CT. Donations in his memory may be made to AMERICARES, 88 Hamilton Avenue, Stamford, CT 06902, or The Harlem Educational Activities Fund, 2090 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10027