Donald H. Fey, a retired development writer and news officer at Penn, died on October 18 of heart failure at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr,

Pennsylvania. He was 82 years old.

Mr. Fey grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended West Philadelphia High School. In 1952, he enlisted in the Army and was stationed as of 1953 in Seoul, South Korea, where he analyzed, decoded and translated intercepted radio messages of the North Korean army. He rose to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in 1955 with the technical rank of SP2. He then joined the Philadelphia Fire Department in Center City, Philadelphia, where he served until the early 1960s before leaving for college.

Mr. Fey studied at Franklin and Marshall College and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and graduated from Temple University. He was an editor at Business Week before joining Penn’s staff in 1968 as a news officer for engineering and the physical sciences (Almanac September 1968). In 1972, he became a science editor (Almanac December 19, 1972). In 1975, he became a development writer, then was promoted in 1976 to senior staff writer. He retired from Penn in 1981 and was later director of development communications at Thomas Jefferson University.

Mr. Fey published The Complete Book of Fund-Raising Writing in 1995. He lectured on fund-raising writing at Penn and several other colleges and universities, as well as non-profits. He also received an award from Time Life for excellence in copywriting.

He is survived by his wife, Jeanne; his son, Peter; his daughter, Tina; one sister; two brothers and three grandchildren. Gifts in his honor may be made to a scholarship fund established in his name to support returning veterans enrolled in the department of journalism at Temple University’s School of Media & Communication. Checks should be made payable to “Temple University—Donald H. Fey Memorial Scholarship” and sent to Temple University, P.O. Box 827651, Philadelphia, PA 19182-7651.