WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON '22
Bill Richardson died of pneumonia at Kent General Hospital in Dover, Del., July 17, 1997. He was 95. Bill was born and lived all his life in Dover, attending local schools before Princeton and returning to work at his family's business, Richardson and Robins. He worked his way up and became president in the early 1950s. The company was sold in 1959. Bill was elected a director of the First Natl. Bank of Dover in 1937 and then served with their successor, the Bank of Delaware, until he retired in 1971.
Bill also served two six-year terms as the commissioner of the Delaware State Highway Dept. from 1948-60. He was an active church member and served for 35 years on the Vestry of the Christ Episcopal Church of Dover, where he was buried. He also was an active and good golfer, having won several club championships in the 40s and 50s. He was predeceased by his first wife, Constance, in 1939, and his second wife, Anne, in 1993. He is survived by three sons, Alden B. III, Edward W., and William F., six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
The Class of 1922

GEORGE L. HINMAN '27
George L. Hinman died at his home in Binghamton, N.Y., Sept. 21, 1997. He had been in poor health for many months.
George prepared at Binghamton H.S. He served with me on the editorial board of the Daily Princetonian and was a member of Quadrangle Club and Whig Hall. He roomed in N. Reunion with Humphrey Ambler. Upon graduation, he attended Harvard Law School and practiced law with his father's firm, Hinman, Howard and Catell, becoming senior partner. Among many civic and business activities, he was a director of the First Natl. Bank of Binghamton, Triple Cities Traction Corp., D. Land W. Fuel & Supply Co., Colgate U., the State U. of N.Y., IBM Corp., and N.Y. Telephone Co.
In the late 1950s, he became the confidential adviser and executive assistant to Nelson Rockefeller when he was governor of New York and U.S. vice-president. George was a member of the Republican National Committee and was a delegate-at-large from New York to the Republican National Conventions of 1960, 1964, and 1976.
George married Barbara Davidge of Binghamton in 1929; they had four daughters, Sidney, Constance, Martha, and Virginia, and one son, Harvey II. He is survived by Martha, Virginia, and Harvey, 11 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. To them, the class extends deep sympathy in the loss of one of its most prominent nationally known civic and political leaders, who was also a quiet but warm personality with a genial twinkle in his eyes.
The Class of 1927

BILL BUSH JR. '31
Charles William Bush Jr. died in St. Petersburg, Fla., June 15, 1997, after an amazingly varied career. At Princeton he majored in biology (graduating cum laude), was anchor man on the water polo team, and played the piano well. He earned an MD degree at Boston U. in 1936, was elected to the American College of Surgeons, and entered practice in Boston. During WWII, he served in the European theater with the Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of major. After the war he did a stint as chief medical officer for the Florida State Prison at Raiford, Fla., and at the time of our 25th he had become medical director and chief of staff of the Berrien County Hospital in Berrien Center, Mich.
Bill married Cora Ann Duby in 1954; they had one son and one daughter. After Cora's death he remarried and moved to Ft. Lauderdale with his second wife, Isabel. There he reentered private practice, and designed and built (mostly by hand) a home in Stuart, Fla., on the St. Lucie River, where he also built a houseboat. At the suggestion of classmate Red Smith, he also bought and remodeled a home in the mountains of North Carolina where he and Isabel spent summers. As Bill's health failed, they moved into a small house in Tampa. The class extends its condolences to his widow and children.
The Class of 1931

FRANK FROMENT '31
Frank Livingston Froment died Sept. 13, 1997, at Basking Ridge, N.J. He was 88. He was born in NYC, and graduated from Hotchkiss in 1927.
In 1934 he married Elizabeth Cauldwell "Betty" McAlpin. He joined Schock & Squire Steel Corp. in 1938, and became its president. While living in NYC he was a member of Squadron A and the New York Guard. He joined the Army in 1943, and served in the European theater until 1945, when he retired as technical sergeant. Frank went into the sugar business, becoming president of Guantanamo Sugar Co., and moved with his family to Convent, N.J. In 1947 he became v.p and general manager of North American Sugar Industries. He retired in 1972. He and Betty had been longtime members of Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Hawley, Pa., and served as its managers. Betty died Nov. 11, 1984.
Frank is survived by his sister, Jeanne Charlesworth, two daughters, Elizabeth Froment Brown and Jeanne Froment Tiedemann, and five grandchildren. The class extends its warm condolences to them.
The Class of 1931

CRAIG W. GILLAHAN '37
Craig died Aug. 21, 1997, leaving a wife of 45 years, Royle, children Craig III, Patricia Mease, and Christi Hoffert, and five grandchildren.
At Lawrenceville, Craig played basketball and baseball, and was on the student council. At Princeton, he played basketball and baseball, and joined Cottage Club, but left us at the end of sophomore year.
He was in investment banking with Glore, Forgan & Co. as a statistician and then sold sutures for Johnson & Johnson. He spent four years in the Military Police, entering as a private, leaving as a staff sergeant; he studied Italian at the U. of Michigan and interpreted for Italian prisoners of war. As a veteran he was a member of Wallace Willard Keller American Legion post in Quakertown, Pa.
Next he worked at Standard Register Co. of Newark, N.J., as a special account representative for business control systems. In 1956, he joined the board of directors of Great Valley Mills, which he purchased and operated for 26 years, until he retired in 1982 to play golf and deep-sea fish. This was a mail-order company, shipping worldwide. It specialized in Pennsylvania Dutch foods and gourmet items; among his customers were Ike Eisenhower, Jimmy Stewart, chefs James Beard and Julia Child, and even Albert Schweitzer in the Belgian Congo. He ground whole wheat, rye, and cornmeal flour at an Upper Bucks mill, cracked oatmeal and other grains in his Quakertown store, and shipped white flour from Minneapolis.
The Class of 1937

ALAN PARKER FLEMING '41
Alan, a financial adviser and well-known tennis player, died July 22, 1997--indirectly from a fall suffered at home. A memorial service was held at the Church of Our Savior on Johns Island, S.C., where he and Sally Linen Fleming had made their home since 1985.
Alan grew up in East Orange and was educated at Princeton and Lafayette. In the war he was navigator on the first LST to see action in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Following study at NYU's school of business and stints with several NYC firms, he formed Dellwood Management Corp., eventually moving it to Seabrook Island.
In sporting circles Al Fleming was renowned as a top-seed senior tennis player, winning the USLTA father/son grass court doubles championship with son Peter in 1974. Soon thereafter Peter eclipsed his father by turning professional and ultimately teaming with the legendary John McEnroe to win seven Grand Slam doubles titles. (Peter graciously credits his father as teacher/mentor for all this glory.) Those who attended the Charleston mini-reunion will remember that Alan arranged our golf program.
In addition to Sally and Peter, Alan is survived by sons Parker, Steven, and Jeffrey, seven grandchildren, and a brother, Elliot. Our sorrow goes out to all of them.
The Class of 1941

DAVID MUIR TAPPEN '46
Dave Tappen died Aug. 30, 1997, at his home in Little Compton, R.I. He was 71.
A Pomfret School grad, Dave entered Princeton in July 1942. He joined the Navy a year later and served in the V-12 program, was commissioned an ensign, and went to various U.S. and Hawaii bases as a communications officer. He returned to campus in 1946, joined Cottage Club, and graduated as a history major in 1947. At Princeton, he followed his father, Clarence M. Tappen '16 and uncle Irwin L. Tappen '21.
With a 1950 Columbia Law School degree, Dave joined the New York firm of Satterlee, Stephens, and Burke, becoming a partner in 1961, the year he married Sarah "Sally" Caffrey. He retired in 1987 after 37 years as a practicing attorney, and moved to Little Compton with Sally and their only child, Sarah L. Tappen, born in 1962.
Sally and Dave traveled widely, and he enjoyed golf, tennis, and skiing before strokes limited retirement activities to gardening and reading.
To his wife and daughter, and his sister Katherine Guthron, who survive him, the class extends its deep sympathy on the loss of our loyal classmate.
The Class of 1946

WILLIAM TURNBULL JR. '56 *59
William " 'Bull" Turnbull Jr. died June 26, 1997, after a long bout with cancer. Always witty, wry, self deprecating, and debonair, 'Bull, the son and great-grandson of architects, decided early to be outstanding in that profession, and let nothing deter him. His Key and Seal clubmates, his roommates from Little Hall, and all who sought him knew they would find him hunched over his drawing board in McCormick Hall's studio or working the room, talking architecture and exchanging ideas.
After graduation, 'Bull earned a graduate degree and joined the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1962 he, Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon '57, and Richard Whitaker formed the partnership which produced Sea Ranch, the California coast community that is 'Bull's professional signature, and other notable projects. As his partners peeled off to prestigious teaching jobs, 'Bull did projects all over the world from his studio on San Francisco's Embarcadero, earning over 100 design awards. He later cofounded Johnson-Turnbull Vineyards, one of California's fine small wineries.
The class joins the overflow crowd at his memorial service, and the writers of many editorial tributes, in sending our sympathy and admiration to his wife and collaborator, Mary Griffin; his parents, William '30 and Betty; daughters Ramsay and Connor; sons William III and Andrew; sisters Ellen and Margaret, and brother Tom '59.
The Class of 1956