Tribal elder Philip Adams, 69, was 'multitalented'

A 69-year-old Port Angeles man and former Peninsula College counselor who died following a one-vehicle crash was remembered Monday for his academic contributions.

Philip D. Adams, who retired from the community college in 2010 and was a Jamestown S'Klallam elder, was pronounced dead at the scene on the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation Saturday night after paramedics' attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

Adams' pickup truck ran off the road and over an embankment at the north end of Lower Elwha Road, the Clallam County Sheriff's Office reported.

“He had an incredible impact on a lot of people,” said Kathy Murphy-Carey, a Peninsula College counselor who had worked with Adams since 1975.