Ralph Wallace Van Wig; Businessman Involved in Scouting

Ralph Wallace Van Wig, 75, a businessman who worked with Boy Scouts for 63 years. Van Wig joined the Scouts when he was 12 and never left, serving in his adult years as a troop leader, skipper of the Sea Scout ship Torqua and trainer of Scout leaders. Like his father, K.W. Van Wig, he earned the highest honor for adult Scout volunteers, the Silver Beaver Award. In his business life, Van Wig was an industrial designer who operated Van Wig Pattern in Long Beach, creating tooling for items ranging from trivets to Disneyland costumes. After his retirement in 1992, he served as an instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. On Saturday in Huntington Beach of a heart attack.