Memorials - May 17, 2000
Harvey Edward Mole '29
Harve was born Apr. 20, 1908, in Paris and died Dec. 17, 1999, in Chatham Township, N.J.
He prepared for Princeton at the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton, he was on the 150-pound crew, Inter-Club Committee, Varsity Club, and pres. of Cloister Inn.
Following Princeton, he received an MBA from Harvard business school in 1931. He was a financier with US Steel and the Carnegie Pension Fund, where he was pres. from 1950 until he retired in 1973. He was a director of several companies and a governor of the Baltusrol Golf Club. Among his clubs was the Princeton Club of New York. His public service included being a member of the board of education of Summit, N.J., a trustee of The Kent Place School, a life trustee and trustee emeritus of Princeton University. He had been a class treas., v.p. and pres.
He is survived by a daughter, Elaine M. Taggart, and two sons, Harvey III and Matthew C., as well as eight grandchildren, including Nancy T. Hegarty '87, and three great-grandchildren. To all of them, the class extends its deep sympathy and shares the loss of this fine gentleman.
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Frank James Dean Jr. '33
Frank Dean died on Feb. 20, 2000, in Prairie Village, Kans. He was 88. He attended Shattuck H.S., in Fairbuilt, Minn., and received degrees in mechanical engineering from Princeton and MIT. In 1934, Frank married Sarah Raymond, who preceded him in death in 1993, after 59 years of marriage. Frank's career was in air conditioning and began with Carrier Corp. in 1934. He later founded the Dean, Hagney Co. and the business expanded to include commercial air conditioning design/contracting companies in Kansas City and Detroit. He retired in 1984. A prolific mechanical inventor, he was granted numerous US patents.
When his brother, Marshall, was killed, Frank took over the management of the historic President Hotel in downtown Kansas City, which his father had managed before him. During this 20-year period, he served as pres. of state and regional hotel assns. He directed the cleanup of the stockyards after the flood of 1950. He was pres. of St. Luke's Hospital, the Kansas City Country Club, and was a member of the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Frank is survived by his wife of five years, Jane Bilisle Dean, four children, Raymond H., Sally Fitch, James D., Frank J. III, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Frank led a vigorous and productive life. The class extends sympathy to his family.
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Frank Harmon Gordon '33
Frank Gordon, of Lake Sunapee, N.H., a village trustee, died Feb. 5, 2000, at Dartmouth-Hickock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He was 88. Former Mayor Walter Handelman said of Frank, "In working for the betterment of Scarsdale, its government, its schools, or its people, there has not been anyone in the last 40 years that I have lived here, that can hold a candle to the skill, humanity, good fellowship, and intelligence that was brought to the community by Frank Gordon. I have missed him since he escaped to New Hampshire, and now I will not see him again, something that makes me very sad indeed."
Frank was chief trial lawyer in communist trials under Judge Medina in the early 1950s. He was a partner in the Manhattan firm of Rogers, Hoge and Hill. He was a member of the New York and New Hampshire bar assns.
Frank was a lt.-col. during WWII. Frank was an avid sailor and conservationist. He was past pres. of the Intl. Racing Assn. from 1963-73. Frank is survived by his wife of 58 years, Dorothy Birmingham Gordon, three daughters, Susan Venable, Nancy Todd, and Gail Baade, eight grandchildren, and a brother, Lincoln. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family and many friends.
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Gordon Sayre Humphrey '33
Gordon Humphrey died Aug. 15, 1999, in Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara. He was 89. Gordon was born in Trenton. He moved to Washington, N.J., where he met his future wife, who was teaching there. After their marriage, they moved to Wellesley Hills, Mass. Gordon received his engineering training at Princeton and his managerial education at Harvard business school. Gordon began his career at Western Electric Co. in New York. During WWII, he was loaned to the Navy's bureau of ships. After the war, he spent 18 years with Raytheon Corporation in various executive and managerial capacities. He left Raytheon to become general manager of the missile division of Leach Corporation in Azusa, Calif. After he retired in 1969, he served on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony, and was active in the Boys Club and United Way. He and his wife traveled extensively in Europe and around the world. He was a loving and compassionate man. He is survived by his wife, Joette Terwilliger, and three children, Gordon Jr., David, and Catherine, and several grandchildren. He is truly missed by his family and friends. The class sends its deepest sympathy to his family.
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Montgomery Meigs Orr '33
Monty Orr died at his home in Santa Fe on Jan. 16, 2000. He was 88. Monty was born in the American Embassy in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Paris and St. Charles, Ill. He graduated from St. Paul's school.
At Princeton, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in architecture. He was a member of Triangle club. He then went to work for Frazier, Raferty, Orr and Fairbank in Geneva, Ill. He became a partner and eventually retired in 1978. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects.
During WWII, he installed secret communications systems in ships and submarines.
Monty lived in Wayne, Ill., from 1938-78 with his wife, Louise McCormick, whom he married in 1935. She died in 1993. He was active in community affairs, a deacon in the Congregational Church, leader of Boy Scouts, and a member of numerous planning commissions. His activities and interests were extraordinarily varied. In 1978, he and Louise moved into their ideal home in Santa Fe.
Monty will be remembered for his gentle wit, courtly manner, modesty, love of nature, and artist's eye. He is survived by his daughter, Bonnie Broopks Miskolczy, and his son, Michael McCormick, and two granddaughters. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.
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Richard Hunter Carter '35
Dick Carter, son of Russell Carter 1888, and born in Silver Bay, N.Y., died on Oct. 26, 1999, in Spring Valley, Calif., at age 86. He prepared for Princeton at Montclair [N.J.] H.S., where he played varsity basketball and was a member of the band, orchestra, and student government board. At Princeton, he lettered in freshman lacrosse, played in the university's marching band and orchestra, and graduated with honors in chemical engineering. Less than a year later, Dick married the former Winifred J. Peck and got a job with Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. They later moved to Scotia, N.Y., where Dick worked for GE for 17 years. Next came a cross-country hop to Costa Mesa, Calif., where he held various engineering jobs at Rockwell Intl. for 15 years. A final move came in 1991, when he retired to Mt. Miguel Covenant Village, Spring Valley, Calif., and went to work part-time using a favorite hobby-woodworking.
Dick was an enthusiastic participant in community activities. His favorites included coaching Little League baseball and youth basketball, square dancing, church school, and adult education. The Carters celebrated 63 years of married life before Dick died. In addition to wife "Winnie" and children Barbara and Stewart, his survivors include seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A brother, Russell Carter Jr. '30, died Sept. 7, 1965.
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Thomas Henry Jones '35
Born in Harrisburg, Pa., Tom died in his sleep in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on Dec. 11, 1999. He was 87. He prepared for Princeton at Harrisburg Academy, where he was valedictorian, a track team member, and played basketball. At Princeton, his interest shifted to geology. After graduation, he was a petroleum geologist in Egypt until Rommel "kicked him out." The next five years were spent, courtesy of the US Navy, as radar officer on the USS Yorktown. Then, he turned back to oil exploration for several decades, first for the Sacony Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. in the Near East and Egypt, then as senior geologist for the Carter Oil Co., in Tulsa.
Tom suffered his first stroke in 1965 and in the following years lived in and out of military hospitals. His first wife, Elizabeth Ann Hopkins, whom he married in 1945, died in 1960. In 1963, he then married Julie, who also predeceased him. By the early 1990s, his health had improved to the point that he was able to move back and forth between Oregon and the East Coast of Florida, near Indian Harbour, where a sister, Elizabeth Bohrman, resides. She, two children, Ann Jones Holmes and Richard, and a grandson survive.
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Alexander Graham Lewis '35
Alec died at his home on Gramercy Park, NYC, Aug. 20, 1999, at age 88. He prepared for Princeton at Newark and Mercersberg Academies, participating in gymnastics, school publications, and dramatics. At Princeton, he majored in English and joined the Varsity Gym Team and Dial Lodge. Next came a year at Columbia U.'s graduate school of journalism and an MS degree that led to newspaper jobs until Pearl Harbor, when he joined the Army as a second lt. For two years, he recalled, he "fought a tidy war," defending Long Island Sound, then shipped to Europe, joining the 44th AAA Brigade on the Riviera front, and was sent to the Seventh Army to aid in its Rhine River crossing.
Exiting the military as a maj. in 1946, Alec worked briefly on the Foreign News desk, Intl. News Service, then plunged into creative writing with Lucille Camps. He married her on Aug. 12, 1950, got a job as press relations manager for Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. and, a few years later, switched to freelance speech-writing. For 39 years, Alec and Lu summered in Maine and shared a love for miniature poodles and American Pilgrim furniture. Lu died in 1989; Alec was writing until his death. There are no descendants.
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James Caddall Morehead Jr. '35
Bud was born in Bradenton, Fla., Oct. 29, 1913, and died in Houston on July 4, 1999. He prepared for Princeton at Schenley H.S., in Pittsburgh, where he played on the tennis team, in its orchestra, served on its publications board, and was a member of both the Debating and Language Clubs. At Princeton, he majored in mathematics, receiving second group honors, played on the class hockey team, was a member of the choir and Key & Seal. After Princeton, he returned to Pittsburgh, where he received a degree in architecture in 1939. He then moved on to teach architecture at Rice U. until he retired in 1979.
He spent four years in the Army during WWII, when he "visited" Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Leyte, and Luzon, emerging with the rank of lt.-col., field artillery.
Bud then returned to Houston, where he became Rice's registrar as well as a professor, rising to the position of dean of the architecture school. He also wrote several books and found time to indulge a lifelong love for music with a 40-year membership in Houston's St. Francis Episcopal Church Choir. His wife of 58 years, the former Martha P. (Pats) Netting, survives Bud, as do two sons, James C. III and Kenneth F., a daughter, Naomi M. Kryske, five grandsons, and an older brother, Clayton W. '32.
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Nelson Thomasson III '35
Nels died Aug. 6, 1999, in Garrett County Memorial Hospital, Oakland, Md., near his summer home in Mountain Lake Park. He was 86.
Son of Nelson Jr. 1900, and Indie Gardiner Thomasson, he prepared for college at Chicago's Latin School. At Princeton, he majored in English, joined Tower Club, and roomed with Charlie Edmonston. After graduation, he worked briefly for J. Walter Thompson Co. and Scott Paper Co., then joined Chicago-based paper merchant Knox & Schneider Co., becoming a senior v.p. He didn't take full retirement until 1997.
He was an avid tennis player, gardener, and gourmet chef. He participated enthusiastically in '35 class activities and found time for a myriad of community jobs, among them, fundraising chair of Chicago's March of Dimes, senior warden of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Barrington, Ill., and secy. of Chicago's Lake Shore Club.
His self-proclaimed greatest lifetime achievement was his marriage to Bette Sue Cantrell in Dec. 1939. They were mirror images in many ways, most evident, perhaps, in a contagious zest for living and a lifelong devotion to friends and family. Suzie died in 1994. In addition to daughters Indie Cater and Lee Nelson, Nelson leaves a son, Nelson IV, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
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Robert Wardrop II '35
Bob Wardrop died in Pittsburgh U.'s medical center on Sept. 4, 1999, at age 85. Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., son of W. Miller Wardrop 1899, he prepared for Princeton at Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Del., and at Choate, where he was wrestling manager and sang in the Glee Club. At Princeton, he majored in politics, rowed four years with the 150-lb. crew, was v.p. of Grenfell Club, and was a member of the Westminster Cabinet and Quadrangle Club. Twenty-five years later, at his 25th reunion, Bob proclaimed himself among the happiest of men. "I've had but one employer (Pittsburgh Plate Glass), one wife (the former Ann Power), three daughters (Alison, Constance, and Stacy), and I wouldn't change any of it," he wrote.
He reported constant address changes to his beloved Princeton during WWII, before leaving military service as a lt.-col. But by 1950 Detroit was home for the Wardrops. He ran PPG's offices there, headed the city's United Way campaign, and gave of his boundless energy to other civic groups. Then, it was back to Pittsburgh to join PPG's upper management team. He and Ann settled in Sewickley Heights, where Bob served multiple terms on the borough council and rededicated himself to a lifetime passion-tennis. He retired from PPG in 1990 and became pres. of Soltis Associates, an executive search team, until a second retirement in 1994. In addition to his devoted Ann and three daughters, he leaves two granddaughters (including Ada B. Combes '01). A brother, Edmund D. Wardrop '34, died in 1963.
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David Degge Roberts '36
David died Oct. 25, 1999, at the Moravian Nursing Home in Lititz, Pa. Born Oct. 1, 1910, until his death at age 89, he was the oldest in our class. He was a lifelong resident of Harrisburg, Pa. He was considered by his family, pastor, and friends, a personable and gentle individual.
David graduated from Mercersburg Academy and studied at Princeton for only a year. He then earned his teaching degree at Millersville State College.
He was a woodshop teacher for 35 years at Harrisburg's Edison Junior H.S. During his retirement years, he enjoyed woodworking, gardening, and traveling with his wife on vacations to NYC, San Francisco, the Jersey shore, and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
He was the widower of Louise Moller Roberts, whom he married in 1936 and who died in 1997 after 61 years of marriage. David is survived by his daughter, Jean R. Liddell, a son, Hugh D. Roberts, and four grandchildren.
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Charles R. Tyson '37
Distinguished career man Charlie Tyson died in July 1999. He left Barbara, his wife of 63 years, son Charlie Jr. '58, daughters Barbara, Helen, and Margaret, 13 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. His daughter, Sarah, died in 1987.
After a distinguished career at Episcopal, and a member of Ivy, he left school early and went with John A. Roebling's Sons, founded by his great-great-grandfather. He traveled and worked in all manufacturing departments and administrative offices, first as secy.-treas., and then, in 1944, as pres., "being busy as the proverbial rat trying to dig a hole in a marble floor." After an acquisition by Colorado Fuel & Iron, Charlie remained as executive v.p. and director. In 1951, he became director of the Budd Company and later at CPC Intl. In 1959, he became executive v.p. of Penn Mutual Life and by 1961 pres. In 1964, he became chair of the United Fund Torch Drive. He was regional chair of the United Defense Fund-seeking funds for the USO for the then-new USO and Camp Shows-pres. of the Delaware Valley United Fund in Trenton, and a trustee of Penn Mutual and College of the Atlantic.
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John Gedroice Powers '38
John died Sept. 2, 1999, of complications arising from cancer of the tongue.
He was born in Mount Vernon and graduated from Pleasantville H.S., both in Westchester County, N.Y. He was on the tennis and rifle teams.
At Princeton, he roomed with Jack Kemp Busby, Dick Glenn, and Ted Starr. He joined Tower Club, Triangle Club, and majored in philosophy. With Ralph Mengel, he formed the pioneering Princeton Tigers undergraduate dance band. Later, his saxophone was a mainstay of our Eightball dance band, long a reunion fixture.
After earning his LLB at Harvard, John practiced in NYC. In 1943, he joined Prentice Hall as general counsel and was pres. from 1954-64.
He later became a trustee of the Denver Art Museum and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and a member of the Harvard Fine Arts and East Asia visiting committees. A collector of and lecturer on Japanese art, he received an honorary degree from Colorado State U.
John and his first wife, Elaine P. Ettinger, were divorced after having two daughters, Jean (deceased) and Lynn, and a son, John. The class extends sympathy to Kimiko, John's wife of 34 years, his children, and four grandchildren.
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John Thurston Beaty '39
Jack died Nov. 12, 1999, in Waynesville, N.C., where he had built a home in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1991 upon retiring from his solo medical practice in Greenwich, Conn. There, he had specialized in nutrition and preventive medicine for 43 years. He earned his medical degree at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1943. As a capt. in the medical corps, he spent two and a half years developing and organizing MASH units. He and Julia Corscaden were married in 1942 and had four children. They divorced in 1971. Jack had begun his career practicing internal medicine (conventional style as he later characterized it), but gradually became convinced of the great importance of nutrition and preventive medicine, now known as "alternative" or complementary medicine. He practiced this form of medicine until he retired. To the extent that he could, he fought the hostile resistance to the challenging new ideas of alternative medicine.
Jack is survived by his wife, Katy (Catherine Randall), whom he married in 1977, and by his daughter, three sons, one grandson, three stepchildren, five step-grandchildren, his sister, Nancy, and brothers Julian '38 and David '50. We offer them our sincere sympathy.
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Charles Augustus Broad '39
Chuck died Oct. 3, 1999, at his home in Milwaukee. Peggy, his wife of 55 years, and all six of their children were with him. Chuck's business career was with Equitable Life Insurance, but he cherished the time he spent "growing up with the kids and growing to love all the bounty of nature." Evidence that he really lived those words came to us in the tribute read by his son, William, at the memorial service, which said in part: "When I was growing up I always felt my dad was different. He wore bow ties at work, recited poetry at home, told us Billy the Beaver stories, put on his Santa suit at Christmas time for kid parties, and embarrassed me by always picking up litter outside my high school. There was something courageous about him, something I admired. Somehow, in ways I can only imagine, I think he had managed to avoid the Hobson's choice we all face in life-of keeping our innocence, or losing it as we gain experience. Somehow he managed to have both. He was otherworldly in the best sense of the word, always fresh, able to see things for the first time, to listen, to open himself up to new people and nature and the miracle of life." With Peggy, their six children, and 12 grandchildren, we celebrate Chuck's life well-lived.
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Walter Ashton Lee '39
Ash died Oct. 23, 1999, in Dillon, Colo., while drinking a martini at the Yacht Club banquet. Denver had been home to him ever since he moved there in 1965 as an executive with Midwest Oil. After getting his MBA from Harvard in 1941, he began a career as a corporate financial officer, successively with Coming Glass, Amoco, Midwest Oil (merged into Amoco), and was later senior v.p. and chief financial officer of Ideal Basic Industries. He had taken five years out for military service, seeing action in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific as operations officer of a destroyer squadron, receiving a letter of commendation for his part in the Normandy landing.
Ash and his wife, Barbara Whiting, were married in 1950. They both loved skiing, fishing, and sailing, so they particularly prized their weekend/holiday getaway at The Moorings in Dillon, Colo. They also loved to travel, and once, when asked what major area he still hoped to explore, Ash, in typical jaunty style, replied "the hereafter." That time has come. To Barbara, their son, Ashton, daughter Diana Lee Crew, and two grandchildren we offer our sincere sympathy.
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Theodore Hermann Von Laue '39 *44
After a brief illness, Theo died on Jan. 22, 2000, in Worcester, Mass., where, until he retired in 1983, he had been teaching at Clark U. He earned his PhD in history at Princeton and taught there for a year, then moved on to the U. of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, the U. of California, and finally Clark.
An immigrant from Germany, Theo arrived on campus in the fall of 1937. He credited Princeton with giving him an excellent introduction to the best qualities of American life at the peak of American influence in the world. He especially remembered the kindness he encountered in the history department. He always felt being a self-styled immigrant outsider gave him a unique insight into the dynamics of contemporary world events. This perspective he fully expounded in his major book, The World Revolution of Westernization, published in 1988. A member of the Society of Friends, he worked in various aspects of the peace movement, particularly in organizations dedicated to the improvement of US/USSR relations.
Theo is survived by his wife, Angela Turner Von Laue, two daughters from his first marriage, Madeleine and Esther, and one grandchild. We offer them our sincere sympathy.
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Karl Mensch Waage '39 *42 *46
Distinguished paleontologist and former director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, Karl died Oct. 18, 1999. He earned his master's and PhD in geology at Princeton. During WWII, he worked with the US geological survey looking for clays rich in aluminum. In 1946, he joined the faculty at Yale as professor and curator of invertebrate paleontology and remained there until he retired in 1986.
Apart from running the museum and helping to train a generation of geologists and paleontologists in 40 years at Yale, Karl was chiefly interested in his research, which took him to Colorado, Wyoming, and the Dakotas in the summers. He meticulously reconstructed the community of marine invertebrates that inhabited the inland sea that covered much of central North America over 100 million years ago.
Karl met his wife of 57 years, Elizabeth King, in Princeton, where she was working at Miss Fine' s School. Their sons became Princetonians, Jonathan K. '66 and Jeffery K. '75, and Karl's grand-niece, Melissa Waage '01, is at Princeton now. We, along with his family and the friends and students whose lives were touched by Karl, give thanks for the warmth and genuine concern he brought to us all.
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Alexander Dallas Wainwright '39
Alec died Jan. 5, 2000, in Hightstown, N.J., where he had been living following his long career as a librarian, almost all of it on the staff of the Princeton University Library, which he joined in 1946 as a member of the department of rare books and special collections. In 1948, in addition to other duties at the library, he assumed responsibility for the Morris L. Parrish collection of Victorian novelists. In 1962, he was appointed assistant librarian for acquisitions. He was editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle from 1949-62. He retired in 1982 as assistant university librarian for the collection department, but he continued to work at the library part-time until his death, chiefly as treas. of the Friends of the Library. He will long be remembered by Thomas Wolfe scholars for the thoughtfully eclectic and unbiased contents of the Thomas Wolfe Collection, his generous gift to the library. He died just days before the library's centennial exhibition opened including The Story of Thomas Wolfe (1900- 1938), which would not have been possible without Alec's collection and the assistance he provided in its preparation.
Alec is survived by his sister, Mary King Auchincloss, a niece, and two nephews, two grand-nephews, and three grand-nieces to whom we offer our sincere sympathy.
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Tallman Bissell '41
Tallman died Dec. 30, 1999. He was a widower.
After graduation from Hotchkiss, he majored in the division of humanities at Princeton. He was Cannon Club's interclub bowling champion, was active in both Intime and Triangle, and was commissioner of academic affairs. Among his roommates were Bill Carnahan, Bill Pettit, Dick Gordon, Shef Hawksey, Ted Buenger, and Hugh Bell.
He graduated from Harvard law school in 1948, then became a partner in several law firms-one of them in London-until he retired in 1988. His hobbies were reading, music, and travel.
Tallman is survived by son John, daughters Katherine Maloney and Galey Sergio-Castelverte. There are three grandchildren. It would be difficult to find a sharper man in both legal and lay matters.
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Frederic T. Brandt '41
Fred Brandt died on Dec. 10, 1999. His wife, Dorothy Kitchell Brandt, survives.
Fred was an honors graduate in economics and joined Tower Club. After graduation, he went to Yale law school, and then on to the US Steel Corporation. Other activities were helping administer Highland Community College, serving as a trustee and elder at the Freeport, Ill., Presbyterian Church, being a past director of the Kiwanis, and helping with Senior Citizen and Aging committees. One of his and Dory's interests was sailing. Ten years ago, they accompanied Jack and Barbara Busch on a four-day round-trip to Daytona and Vero Beach aboard a 40-foot Grand Banks trawler.
Other survivors are a son, Frederick III, and a daughter, Helen Kelleher. We salute this gentleman for his brilliance and his understanding of what citizenship means.
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John Franklin Busch '41
Jack Busch died on Jan. 9, 2000, after a half-year's bout with leukemia. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Stephens Busch.
Jack was valedictorian of his class at Beverly, Ill., and was active in scouting-achieving Eagle status. An interest in military matters led him into rotc, where he was the top-ranked cadet in Chicago. At Princeton, he graduated in three years and made Phi Beta Kappa.
Next came Harvard business school, but this was interrupted by war. He spent four years in the ETO attaining the rank of maj., and was awarded a Bronze Star. When peace came, he eventually became pres. of the Lake Shore Oil Co. Jack played the piano and had a great passion for jazz. He was an avid collector of art, both ancient and modern.
Other survivors are sons Eric and John Jr. '78, daughter Judith Swain, and four grandchildren. We are sad to lose this exceptionally brilliant and wide-ranging gentleman.
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William Wallace Scott '41
Bill died in St. Louis on Nov. 29, 1999, at Missouri Baptist Center after a brief illness.
He went to Mercersburg and majored in chemistry at Princeton. Bill was a member of Tower Club and roomed with Bob Terry, Bill Kelly, Jim Copeland, and Jim Maguire.
For 28 years he taught chemistry, physics, and earth sciences at what is now Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. He retired in 1987. On this occasion, the newspaper headline read, "Great Scott! The end of an era."
Bill then worked as a docent at the St. Louis Science Center. After serving as a Navy lt. during WWII, he worked in sales for 13 years at Mallinckrodt Inc.
Among survivors are his wife, Margaret, of 35 years, son William Jr., daughters Anne and Kate D'Arcy. There is a stepson, Benjamin Brink, and seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. We are sad to lose a gentleman who was a gifted teacher. Bill is remembered for his kindness, his humor, and his zest for life.
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Jere S. Meserole '44
Jere Meserole, of Burlington, Vt., died on Feb. 24, 2000, at his winter home in Boca Raton. He came to Princeton from the Lawrenceville School. He rowed on the crew, and roomed with John Bragg and later with Clint Ivins. Bill Soons and Rob Rowe were childhood friends.
After serving more than three years in the Army-winning the Silver Star-he commenced his career in insurance in New York, then moved to Burlington, where he worked for Northern Oil, developed several businesses of his own, and became a v.p. of the Chittenden Bank. He served on numerous boards and as pres. of the First Congregational Church. He was particularly proud of his establishment of the Vermont chapter of the Senior Coalition of Retired Executives.
Surviving him are his wife, Carole, and his children, Jere Jr., Gregg, Rolf, and Kristin, and 11 grandchildren. To them his class extends its sincere condolences.
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Charles R. Schueler '44
After a long bout with leukemia, Dick died on Feb. 4, 2000, at home in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
He came to Princeton from Andover and was capt. of the freshman lacrosse team, later receiving a major "P" as a member of the 1942 NCAA championship team. He majored in politics, appeared in Triangle, was a member of Cottage Club, was head cheerleader, and made Dean's list. Among his roommates were McGiffert, Upton, Edgar, Bill Moore, Pettengill, Stretch Ewing, Dick Davis, Arnold, Willis, and Wadsworth.
A first lt. in the Army and a capt. in the reserves for years after the war, he graduated in June 1946 and then founded John Douglas, Inc., a chain of classic men's and women's sportswears stores in and around Boston. He was also in the leather business, and obtained our famous lederhosen from Bavaria for our 10th reunion, An outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, bird hunting, boating, and golf, he and his wife, Gay, also operated a seasonal antique business in Camden, Maine.
At his memorial service at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, speakers included Dick Davis, Bud Scott '46, and Charlie Schueler Jr.; Gid Upton and Stretch Ewing were ushers; Bob Greeley also attended.
In addition to his wife, Gay, he is survived by six children, a sister, two stepsons, and eight grandchildren. To them the class extends its deepest sympathy.
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John H. MacFadyen '46 *49
John MacFadyen died Feb. 18, 2000, in Damariscotta, Maine, near the village of Head Tide, where he and his wife, Mary-Esther, made their home. The cause of death was pneumonia, but his health failed for some years, particularly after his wife's death in 1977.
John came to Princeton from Duluth in the "accelerated" summer of 1942. Gifted in music and arts, he contributed songs to Triangle, including, "As I Remember You," long a Nassoons' favorite. John was the life of any party with a piano. Remembered was his rendition of "Shine, Little Glow Worm," played upside down from under the piano.
After US Army service in Japan, he returned to Princeton for a master's of fine arts in architecture. In the NYC firm, Harrison & Abramowitz, he designed a main United Nations building. John received the Rome Prize in architecture, and, newly wed to Mary-Esther Edge, spent 1952-53 at Rome's American Academy.
His private architectural practice, noted especially for the design of the Wolf Trap Center for the Arts outside Washington, was interrupted by his service, during the 1960's, under Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, as executive director of the first state arts council.
The class joins his children, Camilla, Luke, William, and John and three grandchildren in mourning the loss of one of our most unforgettable members.
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Robert Samuel Taylor '46 *49
Architect and professor of architecture Bob Taylor died Dec. 8, 1999, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, in Oakmont care center, near his Pittsburgh home.
His Princeton studies were interrupted in 1942 by service in the Air Force as an instructor for P-40 fighters. Returning in 1945 to study architecture, he graduated AB in 1947 and in 1949, MFA with the AIA medal.
In 1949, Bob joined the faculty of Carnegie Tech, also keeping a private practice, before returning in 1959 to Princeton as associate professor of architecture. In 1962, he rejoined Carnegie Mellon U. as full professor, remaining until he retired in 1990. Popular as a professor, he was also recognized as "a superb studio teacher and articulate commentator and critic." Practice in the 1950's was as principal at Shear, Spagnuolo and Taylor, and then Curry, Martin and Taylor. Subsequent solo practice included residential and public work. From 1958-59, Bob served on Pittsburgh's board of education, and from 1971-90, on the board of trustees of the Winchester-Thurston School.
He is survived by his wife, Ann Baldwin Taylor, three daughters, Margaret Ellen, Elisabeth Baldwin, and Mary Katherine Golightly, two sisters, and six grandchildren; also cousin John C. III '47. Cousin Joseph W. '46 predeceased in 1986. To all his family, the class sends its sympathy and great regret.
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Robert George Austin '48
Bob Austin died on Dec. 26, 1999, in Stockton, Calif.
He came to us in the V-12 program from the Renton (Washington) H.S., and graduated in 1949. He went on to get his medical degree from the U. of Washington.
He was in private psychiatric practice in Stockton and Washington State for 25 years. He was medical director of the Stockton Development Center for 10 years and a volunteer at St. Mary's Interfaith Medical Clinic for a number of years. He was a lt.-col. in the US Army Medical Corps Reserve until 1984.
To his widow, Theresa, sons Bob and Paul, daughters Cathryn, Janyce, and Ruth, the class extends its deepest sympathy. Bob was always a loyal Princetonian.
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James Greeley McGowin II '48
The class is saddened to record the death of Greeley McGowin on Feb. 18, after a brief illness at his home in Chapman, Ala. He and Ninette also had a residence in Savannah. Greeley was a loyal Princetonian in every way and attended all our major reunions from the 25th on.
He was a graduate of Episcopal H.S., Alexandria, Va. At Princeton, his major was history and he was in Cloister Inn. He graduated and went on to Pembroke College, Oxford for two years.
Greeley's business career was entirely in the lumber industry. He was first in the family business, W. T. Smith Lumber, until it was sold to Union Camp in 1966. He worked for Union Camp until he retired in 1991, the last 20 years in Savannah as v.p. for woodlands and wood products. He continued to be active in industry professional associations.
To his widow, Ninette, and daughters, Mary Alice '76 and True, the class extends its sympathy and shares in their bereavement.
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Kendrick Robertson Bragg Jr. '49
Ken died Oct. 13, 1999, in Durham, N.C., of leukemia. He was 81. As he was married when he came to Princeton and lived off campus, he was not too well known by members of the class. Even so, he was the class legend. In Feb. 1943, as a B-17 pilot, his plane was rammed by a Messerschmitt fighter over Africa. Somehow he flew the plane back to its base even though the tail was wobbling as if made of rubber. He then made a perfect landing. When Boeing engineers tried to examine the plane the next day, the tail fell off as they entered it. From this episode came the WWII ballad "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer."
Ken's degree was in architecture. He practiced in his field in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for 30 years. He was director of project design for the public works department in St. Thomas.
He is survived by his wife, Aura Ferrer Bragg, a daughter, Carol Luise Thomas, and a brother, Vernon C. Bragg. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them.
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William Allan Cameron '49
Bill died on Oct. 5, 1999, of lung cancer. He was 71. He prepared for Princeton at Southampton H.S. He entered with the original members of the class in June of 1945, then entered the Army and returned to graduate in 1950 with a degree in psychology. He was a member of Cannon Club.
Bill graduated from Harvard law school in 1953 and joined the New York law firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn that year. During his tenure with the firm, he handled the sale of the New York Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon for his client, Charlie Payson.
The hurricane of 1938 made a strong impression on Bill, and for the rest of his life he was actively involved in the fight to preserve beach-front property on Long Island from further development. He served as chair of the Nature Conservancy's South Fork-Shelter Island Chapter. He was instrumental in establishing the Community Preservation Fund, which will generate $120 million to preserve remaining areas of eastern Long Island.
He is survived by his wife of 23 years, the former Katharine Torrey, his daughters, Jean Cameron Smith and Anne C. Cunningham, and four grandchildren, also two stepchildren, Karen Forkner Wells and Stanley Forkner. To all of them the class extends its deepest sympathy.
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Raymond Leonard Michael '49
Ray died Aug. 29, 1999, in NYC. He was 75. He prepared for Princeton at Central High in Philadelphia and came to the campus in the Marine V-12 unit after extensive combat service in the Pacific. While at Princeton, he was very active in Whig-Clio as pres. of the debate panel and a member of the speakers bureau. He majored in politics.
After graduation, Ray moved to New York and went on to a career in systems management. He became involved with computers early in his career and was fascinated by them throughout his life. He often helped to locate missing class members by use of his computer skills. He remained active in politics and was also an avid traveler.
To his wife of over 50 years, Cecelia, his daughter and son-in-law, Janis '79 and Justin Schwartz PhD '79, and his two grandchildren the class extends its deepest sympathy for their loss.
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Walter Tompkins Odell '49
Tom died on Aug. 26, 1999, in Worcester, Mass., not far from his home in Shrewsbury. He was 71. He was raised in Tomkins Cove, N.Y., and came to Princeton from Woodbury Forest School. At Princeton, he was on the varsity wrestling team and was a member of Quadrangle. He graduated with high honors from the Woodrow Wilson School.
Tom converted to Catholicism while an undergraduate and his faith was a pillar of his life thereafter. After graduation, he did graduate work at Oxford and received his PhD from Georgetown. He taught at Holy Cross for 26 years and retired in 1995. A former Trappist monk, he was an expert on Catholic political theory and a dedicated teacher and mentor to countless Holy Cross students.
In his later years, he successfully overcame cancer and a life-threatening heart attack while acting as an inspiration to others by his positive and adventurous outlook on life.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to his wife, Ann, his two sons, John and Michael, his daughter, Kathleen Korgen, his stepson, Vernon Elliott, his stepdaughter, Charlotte Elliott Mambro, and his six grandchildren.
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Donald Husted Riddle '49 *56
Don died on Oct. 11, 1999, after a long illness. He was 78. At Princeton, he majored in politics and was in the Woodrow Wilson School.
After receiving his PhD in politics, Don went on to a stellar career in academia. He taught at Princeton for a short time, then at Hamilton College for six years. He then moved to Rutgers to teach and do research. After Rutgers, Don went to CCNY's John Jay school of criminal justice as dean of the faculty, then pres. His last academic post was as chancellor of the U. of Chicago. He retired from there in 1984. While at John Jay, he had several run-ins with J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI.
In our perpetual class book, he stated that no one received a better education at Princeton than he did. He certainly made good use of it.
Don is survived by a daughter, Susan, and a sister, Betty Carhart. To them the class extends its deepest sympathy.
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Gustavus Ober Thomas '49
Gus died Sept. 10, 1999, in Baltimore, from complications of a peptic ulcer. He was 72. He came to Princeton from the Gilman School after service in the Navy. He was a member of Tiger Inn. He left prior to graduation and earned a degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1949.
He founded his own firm, Ober Woodworking, Inc., which had a reputation for high quality cabinet making in the Baltimore area. He was the nephew of Norman Thomas, the socialist candidate for pres. between 1928 and 1948.
Gus never married and there are no close surviving relatives. However, Bill Fulton, Pinky Hohen, Andy Thomas, and Jack Wharton attended his memorial service for the class.
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Walter Jarvis Barlow McWilliams '52
Barlow McWilliams died from complications of lung cancer at home in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on July 13, 1998. His memorial service was held at Fairmont Presbyterian Church, Cleveland Heights.
A graduate of St. Paul's school, Barlow majored in economics, belonged to Cannon Club, and sang in the freshman Glee Club. After graduation, he was drafted into the Army and served in Okinawa and Japan. In 1954, he joined Natl. City Bank of Cleveland and became v.p. in the commercial department. After a tour as an investment counselor, he joined Ameritrust, and in 1981, rejoined Natl. City Bank, where he retired as v.p. in 1994.
A recovering alcoholic for more than 25 years, Mac's work in alcohol and drug dependency had a profound effect throughout the Cleveland area. A sponsor of many men on their AA pilgrimage, he was a board member of both the Recovery Resources and the Hitchcock Center for Women, and his role was central in the conversion of St. Mary's Seminary into a residential facility for women.
Barlow is survived by a daughter, Marion, and son, W. J. Barlow Jr., four grandchildren, two sisters, and brother John '62. We extend to them our profound condolences.
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John Robert Moore '52
After a three-year illness, Bob Moore died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, Milwaukee, on Aug. 7, 1998. His memorial service was held in the Village Church (ELCA), a storefront on Milwaukee's east side.
Bob showed an uncommon capacity for growth throughout his life. At Princeton, he majored in politics and was active in Lutheran Student Fellowship and the Student Christian Assn. He earned his MBA at Harvard in 1954, was commissioned ensign after OCS in Newport, R.I., and served at sea for 18 months. The demands of liquidating the family hardware business influenced his decision to move to Milwaukee, where he taught business and finance at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bob's next life-changing event was his realization, in 1971, that he was gay. Before he retired in 1990, he was director of the executive MBA program at UW-M, and trustee of Carthage College in Kenosha. His civic activities were many, for which he received, posthumously, Milwaukee's Pridefest Lifetime Achievement Award. He noted in the 40th Book that he was sustained by two caring pastors and his loving sister.
Bob is survived by his sister, Sally Breneman w'53, and adoring nieces. We offer them our deepest sympathies.
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Louis Cope Washburn '52
Lou Washburn died at his apartment in Philadelphia on Sept. 18, 1998, after a lengthy illness. His memorial service was held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Radnor, where he had served on the vestry.
Lou devoted significant energy to his family, church, law practice, and the Red Cross for more than 40 years. He married Bunty in 1954, during military service following graduation. After Harvard law school, Lou joined the firm of Pepper, Hamilton, and Sheetz, where he practiced for 41 years, becoming a partner in 1961.
A resident of Malvern for 40 years, Lou worked to control the growth of suburbia as a member of the township planning commission. He was deeply involved with the Red Cross and served as chair of the Southeast Pennsylvania chapter. He also served on the board of the Episcopal Church Foundation.
For years Lou's family life revolved around the horse world. In the 25th Book, he noted "never a dull moment with three back ponies, one horse, and endless horse show activities."
Lou is survived by Bunty, three children, Mark, Elizabeth, and Diana, and four grandchildren. We extend to them our profound sympathy.
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Richard C. Morrison '59
Dick Morrison died on May 1, 1999, following an angioplasty.
Dick entered Princeton from Manchester H.S, in Manchester, Conn. He majored in physics, rowed crew, joined Whig-Clio, and served as pres. of Court Club.
Following graduation, Dick earned a PhD in physics at Yale, then joined the faculty of New Haven College. While there, he participated in the development of a full physics-major program, and served as vice-chair of the faculty senate, and college research coordinator. In 1967, he moved his family to Ames, Iowa, to take a position as assistant professor of physics at Iowa State and associate physicist at the Ames US Atomic Energy Laboratory.
In Jan. 1980, back east again, he became dean of professional studies and continuing education at the U. of New Haven.
Dick once noted that he was "completely surrounded" by females, his wife and four daughters. He had the rare distinction of seeing all his daughters graduate from Princeton: Pam '83, Katrina '87, and twin daughters Maria and Andrea in 1990. In 1991, Katrina married Daniel Feig '87, the son of Steve Feig.
Dick is survived by his wife, Pat, and his daughters. To the family of this energetic and accomplished classmate the class extends its deepest sympathies.
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David M. Chen '65
David M. Chen died of a heart attack on Mar. 9, 1999. at his home in Montreal. He was born in Chungking, China, and immigrated to this country when his father was posted to China's diplomatic mission in Washington.
Following the 1949 change of government in China, his family became US citizens under special consideration of the State Department. At Princeton, he earned his degree as a civil engineer, played football, and belonged to Quadrangle Club. After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps, serving for two years in Pakistan before enrolling at Stanford to get a master's in civil engineering. He then began a long, successful career with Bechtel, supervising engineering projects all over the world. He left Bechtel in 1988 for a series of successful ventures as the pres. of small engineering companies.
He had come to think of Montreal as his home, the city where he met his wife, Marie-Paule Chen-Dube, who predeceased him in 1993. His companion, Sylvie Robichaud, and her son, Kenny Pinel, were with him when he was stricken. He is survived by his parents, Wansu and Yin Ching Chen, his sister Min-Vin Chen, and his three brothers Frank, Philip, and Melvin. The class sends it sympathies.
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Charles J. Harris '70
Chod Harris died Dec. 8, in Santa Rosa, Calif., from complications following a heart attack.
He was born in Rochester and came to Princeton from the Taft School. He graduated from Princeton cum laude in biology, with a certificate in science in human affairs. This interest was also reflected in his work on the first Earth Day in the spring of 1970. While on campus, he was active with Triangle and the Astronomy, Photography and Amateur Radio clubs. The latter interest continued over the years. In 1980, he bought the DX Bulletin, a publication on amateur radio, then founded DX magazine and wrote columns on the topic for GQ magazine. He also wrote two books on the subject. He ran for the California Assembly on the Libertarian Party line in 1994.
Chod is survived by his wife, Jean, brothers Peter and Sady, daughter Jody L. King, and parents Margie and Joseph Harris '37. A man of deep sincerity and intelligence, his presence at our 30th reunion will be sorely missed in the same degree as his presence enlivened our 25th.
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Jeffrey W. Meyers '70
Jeff Meyers died on Oct. 11, 1999, of acute kidney and liver failure following a brief illness in his lifelong hometown of Omaha.
He came to Princeton from Westside H.S. While on campus, he majored in philosophy, and served on several campus committees and as an officer of Quadrangle Club. He also was the station manager of WPRB his senior year. That, however, was not his crowning achievement at the station. As Rod St. John, a subtle combination of Dan Ingram, Wolfman Jack, and Bozo the Clown, he illuminated the New Jersey airwaves for four years. His photo, kibitzing on-air with radio legend Jean Shepherd during our senior year, still graces the WPRB lobby and will for many years more. Shep himself died five days after Jeff.
Jeff was a highly accomplished attorney. First in his class at Nebraska law school, he clerked for the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court before joining Frost, Meyers, Govier and Milone, where he was managing partner at the time of his death.
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Gregg Owens '70
Gregg Owens died in Pittsburgh on Sept. 17. He had been in a coma for three years following a stroke.
A native of Glen Dale, W.Va., he came to Princeton from the Linsley School in Wheeling. He majored in biology while participating in Whig-Clio, Orange Key, and Tiger Band. Other highly favored pastimes included Charter Club, bridge, pong, and his band, Gates of Eden.
Following medical school at Penn, Gregg focused his study on the health effects of smoking. After kicking the habit himself, he began research in the then-small field, eventually leading the Lung Health Study at Pitt, beginning in 1985. He held leadership positions in the Pennsylvania Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, the Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Disease, and the American Lung Assn. of Pennsylvania.
As deeply as he will be missed in his profession, his friends and family will miss his warmth and concern even more. To his widow, Dr. Jane Owens, their children, Gregory and Allison, his mother, Anna, and sister Gay, the class extends its sympathy as well as its deep admiration for their forebearance during Gregg's extended incapacity.
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Lowell Bruce Miller '72
Lowell died of brain cancer at his home in Summit, N.J., on Feb. 2, 2000. He was 50.
Raised in Philadelphia and Havertown, Pa., Lowell entered Princeton in the Class of '71. He joined the Class of '72 when illness postponed the start of his sophomore year.
As a member of the University Press Club, he was the Princeton correspondent for many major newspapers and wire services. He served the Press Club as pres. in 1971, and secy.-treas. in 1970. Lowell also belonged to Charter Club and was chair and cofounder of the Royal Huntation Society.
After graduating with a degree in English literature, Lowell earned a JD from Georgetown U. law center, where he met his future wife, Katherine L. Hufnagel.
Lowell practiced at the Washington, DC, law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering until 1983, when he joined the AT&T law department. During the 1980s and 1990s, he provided legal counsel for AT&T's pioneering work in the development of competitive alternatives to the local telephone companies. Lowell remained with AT&T as a senior attorney until 1996, when he became corporate counsel at Lucent Technologies. He retired from Lucent in 1999.
The introductory art courses in which Lowell enrolled at Princeton eventually became the foundation of a lifelong passion for the fine arts. His other interests included music, cinema, wine, fine food, and world travel.
Lowell is survived by his wife, Katherine L. Hufnagel, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Miller, and his brother, Lee H. We extend to them our deepest sympathy.
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