Donald W. Bacon.

• Position: In Memoriam

Donald W. Bacon, a retired Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service who joined Tax Executives Institute upon becoming tax director for policy and planning with the conglomerate Gulf & Western, died on June 23, 2012, in Arlington, Virginia. He was 97 years old. For his outstanding service as a government employee, Mr. Bacon was granted TEI's Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Bacon did auditing work for the General Accounting Office in Washington before joining the IRS in 1956. Among his many positions with the tax agency were Regional Commissioner (in New England) and Assistant Commissioner for Compliance before joining Gulf and Western in 1971. He retired in 1984. A Cincinnati native and a 1939 graduate of Antioch College in Ohio, Mr. Bacon served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II and retired from the Navy Reserve in 1952 at the rank of lieutenant commander.

Mr. Bacon joined TEI in 1971, and he served the organization in many formal and informal ways. For example, he chaired TEI's International Taxation Committee and its Treaties Committee (as well as its International Taxation Subcommittee on Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Possessions). Because he was resident in the Washington, D.C., area, he also acted as the Institute's assistant treasurer, signing checks when the Institute's Treasurer and other authorized members were unavailable. He also represented TEI before many organizations. Finally, following the death of TEI's former Managing Director...