Memorials - April 7, 1999
Harold Love Springer Jr. '29
Had died July 27, 1998. He prepared for college at Wilmington Friends School and Tower Hill School in Wilmington. At Princeton he played polo and was active in the Glee Club (as conductor) and Triangle Club. He belonged to Tower Club and roomed with Jack Copley and Clem Hoopes.
After one year with duPont he went into the family business (castings, car wheels, and machinery), of which he became president. When he sold the company he went back to duPont and was plant engineer for several of its plants. He was on the board of the Industrial Trust Co. He and his wife were continuously active in the Presbyterian Church, and Had kept up his interest in music, especially choral singing.
In 1934 he married Susan Holsomb, who survives him, as do their four sons: Harold III '59, Charles, William, and Stephen. The class extends sincere sympathy to Had's family.
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Geoffrey Carleton '31
Jeff Carleton died Dec. 13, 1988, at the Community Hospital in Elizabethtown, N.Y. He was 89. Born June 18, 1909, he prepared at the Horace Mann School in NYC. After graduating from Princeton, he worked in the libraries of the City College of New York and the Brooklyn Public Library.
From 194042, he returned to college, earning a BLS and an MA from Columbia U. He then entered the Army and served in anti-aircraft training until his discharge as a T/5 in 1945. Jeff then became a librarian at New York U., where he remained until his retirement.
Jeff's wife, Irene, died in 1975. He is survived by stepchildren, nieces, and nephews. No further information is available at this time. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his entire family.
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Edgar J. Mack Jr. '31
Edgar "Bud" Mack died Nov. 26, 1998, in Cincinnati, after a long battle with emphysema. He was 89.
Bud prepared at the University School. After Princeton he joined the securities and investment firm Seasongood and Mayer and became a partner. During WWII, he served five years in Europe and the U.S., reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. Assigned to intelligence work in the European theater, he earned a Bronze Star and several battle stars.
A lifelong Cincinnati resident, he was a member of the Bankers Club, the Queen City Club, the Grand Masters, CSO, Fine Arts Fund, and Hebrew Union College Board; president of the Indian Hill School Board; and a director of the College of Mount St. Joseph. Space simply is unavailable to acknowledge all his accomplishments. But one remark he made exemplifies his spirit. He once wrote to his children: "If you wonder why we take the time and energy to do these jobs, it is because of a wonderful ethic in this country that says if you take from the community, then you should return something to it. You get a lot back, and it's a lot of fun."
Bud is survived by his wife, Elaine; sons, Edgar III, Stephan J., and John A.; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The class extends its sincere sympathy to the entire family.
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William K. Newman '31
Bill Newman died Dec. 2, 1998. He was 89. His was in these days a unique life, as he devoted time and energies to promoting civil rights and his belief in Christianity more than to the more mundane accumulation of riches.
Having received his early education at home, Bill later graduated from Germantown Academy. At Princeton, he won honors in politics and honorable mention for the Junior Oratorical Medal. He belonged to Clio Hall and University Club. He then earned a LLB from the U. of Pennsylvania in 1934 and practiced law for three years in Philadelphia. He joined the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational and Christian Churches in NYC. From 1943-46, he was an administrative officer at the Naval Air Station in Quonset, R.I., and was discharged as a lieutenant.
Rocky Mountain College honored him with a doctorate for his service as executive of church building for the Congregational Church, and he was deeply involved in planning and financing church buildings all over the country. Incidentally, he was the first nonarchitect to be elected to the Church Architects Guild of America.
Bill is survived by his wife of 58 years, Cathelia, and his three children, James, Katherine, and Harley. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.
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Eric Kocher '32
Eric died Jan. 2, 1999, from heart failure at his home on Long Island's North Shore. He had a distinguished career as a Foreign Service officer, playwright, and author.
After Princeton Eric earned an ABA at Harvard Business School, then worked for government agencies. In 1939 he entered Yale Drama School to study playwriting. This activity was interrupted by WWII; he was drafted. He became a labor officer supervising civilian labor in France, Belgium, and Germany, retiring as a major. In 1945 he joined UNRRA as director of three displaced-persons camps in Austria and was instrumental in reuniting families separated during the war. He then joined the Foreign Service and spent 22 years in Belgium, Malaya, Singapore, and Jordan.
Next, Eric spent nine years as associate dean of Columbia U. School of Intl. Affairs. He wrote his memoirs and a book on international job-hunting and employment. With the proceeds from that book he established an annual prize at Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for the most original, interesting play. In 1957 he received an award for the most original play from the American Theater Wing.
In 1947 Eric married Margaret, who survives him, along with their children, Eric Glenn, Terry, Christopher, and Debra, seven grandchildren, and a sister, Mildred Kocher Crowley. To all of them the class expresses its sympathy in our mutual loss.
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Edgar M. Lucas '32
Ed Lucas died Jan. 30, 1999, of cancer at the Blakehurst Life Care Community in Towson, Md.
After leaving Princeton, Ed attended Johns Hopkins for a year to study business administration, then found a position in the newly formed investment management department of Mackubbin, Legg & Co. In 1935 he went to work for The General Utilities and Operating Co., with whom he was associated for many years, as a security analyst, and eventually became president and director. He retired in 1969 as president to become a private investor in his own office in Towson. He had bought a large farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he raised Black Angus cattle and became a director of the Maryland Aberdeen Angus Assn. Eventually, however, he became intensely interested in raising racehorses, and at the time of his death he was known as one of Maryland's most prominent thoroughbred breeders and enthusiasts.
During WWII, Ed spent three years with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, serving as its chief accountant and attaining the rank of captain. He was a lifelong golfer and former club champion at the Baltimore Country Club and was president of the Maryland State Golf Assn. and the MidAtlantic Golf Assn.
Ed is survived by his son Dale and three grandchildren. The class offers them its sincere condolences.
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Joseph T. L. Nicholson '32
Joe Nicholson died Jan. 31, 1999, at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square, Pa.
Joe earned his medical degree at the U. of Pennsylvania, where he completed his internship, residency, and a fellowship. He practiced family medicine in Devon, Pa., for over 45 years, retiring seven years ago. A longtime attending physician at Bryn Mawr Hospital, he was a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Internal Medicine, the American Medical Assn., the Nassau Club of Princeton, and the Seaside Park [N.J.] Yacht Club.
During WWII, he entered the Army Medical Corps, became attached to the 24th Station Hospital, and spent a year in Palestine and a year in Assam, India, where he was chief of the medical service. Returning to the U.S., he became chief of the G-I section of Thomas M. England General Hospital in Atlantic City, retiring in 1945 with the rank of captain, later major. He taught for two years at the U. Hospital at Pennsylvania, became a diplomate of the Board of Internal Medicine, and in 1947 entered the practice of general medicine.
Joe's wife of 56 years, Helen Schureman, died in 1995. He is survived by daughters Katherine N. Biddle, Roberta N. Elmore, and Jean N. Morrison, seven grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, and two brothers. The class mourns with them the death of this doctor and gentleman.
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William Bradford Harwood Jr. '39
Pete died Dec. 26, 1998, in Bath, Maine, at the home of his daughter Phyllis Munro. Over the years Pete and his wife, Sylvia, who died in 1995, were enthusiastic in attendance at our class gatherings, and Pete was often a volunteer in class affairs. He served as Annual Giving agent for our Special 20th Reunion Fund and as reunion chairman from 1950-54.
After his WWII service as a navigator on B17s in the Army Air Corps, Pete began a business career as a marine insurance broker, initially with Johnson & Higgins. Later he joined Frank B. Hall & Co. and remained with them until he retired as senior v.p. of their marine division in 1987.
Besides his daughter Phyllis, Pete leaves two sons, W. B. "Toby" III and Peter. Joining with them in farewell to our old friend, we offer them our sincere sympathy.
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Charles Newbern Barton '41
Worn out by aggressive cancer and its treatment, Charlie battled all the way but lost on Sept. 10, 1998. Following a family celebration for his great 80 years, he died at home in Charleston, S.C.
Charlie went to Deerfield Academy and Harvard Business School. At Princeton he majored in history and joined Charter Club.
On active duty with the Navy aboard a destroyer in both theaters of WWII, he met and married Norma Thatcher during shore leave in 1944.
Charlie became president of Charles B. Knight Insurance Agency in NYC and general manager of Union Central Life Insurance Co., the world's largest insurance agency, founded by his grandfather. He was president of Douglaston [N.Y.] Club and the Douglas Manor Assn., and belonged to the Douglaston yacht squadron. A lifelong member of the Douglaston Community Church, he attended its Sunday school and later became an elder and chair of the church council. He kept his membership there when the family moved to Charleston, S.C., where he became an associate member of the French Huguenot Church.
Charlie loved sailing, Reunions, and family gatherings, despite being hobbled at times with cranky hips. As class secretary he wrote paw class notes with irrepressible humor.
To Norma, children Knight, Walter, Salley Barton Davidson, and four grandsons, the class extends its sympathy.
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Henry W. Doyle Jr. '41
Henry Doyle died July 20, 1998, after a long siege of prostate cancer.
Henry grew up in Bronxville, N.Y., and graduated from Bronxville H.S. In college, he majored in biology and was a member of the varsity track team, specializing in the high jump. He belonged to Colonial Club, where he was a resident in 1940-41.
After graduation, Henry entered Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1944. Completing his internship a year later, he served as a medical officer in the Army until 1947. He practiced medicine in Bronxville from 1950-76. During that time he was chief of staff from 1970-1974 at the Lawrence Hospital. In 1976, he gave up private practice to become associate chief medical officer for Texaco.
Henry was always active in community affairs, serving as a member of the Consistory of the Reformed Church, the board of the United Way of Westchester, Home Nursing Assn. of Westchester, and the Bronxville Public Library.
He had many hobbies, including furniture making, photography, music, and travel.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, whom he married in 1945; four children, Henry W. '68, Peter M. '71, Catherine Doyle Denniston, and Cynthia Doyle Colangelo; 11 grandchildren; and two sisters. To Henry's wife and family, the class offers its sympathy.
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Philip Case '42
Phil died Dec. 22, 1998, of nonHodgkin's lymphoma at Crestwood Manor Convalescent Center in Whiting, N.J. He retired from the life insurance business in 1968.
Before coming to Princeton Phil attended Hotchkiss School. He left after sophomore year to attend the General Motors Institute, in Flint, Mich. He had planned to major in politics and had joined Court Club before leaving. During the war he spent three and a half years with the AAF as a control tower operator, rising from private to sergeant.
After the war, following a five-year stint in NYC as an airways engineer, with the CAA, Phil returned to Somerville, N.J., his lifelong home, to enter the life insurance business, with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He subsequently established his own business as a life insurance broker. He was a member of the Somerville Borough Council, the United Way of Somerset County, and the American Red Cross.
To his widow, Shirley, and his sister, Henrietta Thomson, the class extends its most sincere condolences.
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William Metcalf III '45
Will, our oldest living classmate, died May 29, 1998, in an auto accident in Sewickley, Pa.
Will entered Princeton from The Hill with '43 but almost immediately transferred to our class. He joined Tower Club. Will's Princeton career was interrupted by service with the Marine Corps as an antiaircraft gunner aboard USS Columbia in the Pacific theater, where he was awarded the Purple Heart. He took his AB in history in 1946 and joined the United Engineering Foundry Co. in Youngstown, Ohio.
In 1953 he married Edith Anne Binney. After employment with American Express as a travel representative, he joined the Reuben Donnelly Corp.; he later began a teaching career at Sewickley Academy in 1962. Will was active in the Boy Scouts, as a Sunday school teacher, and as a member of the Allegheny Country Club in Sewickley. Eventually Will owned and operated the U. School in Pittsburgh, leaving the field in 1983 to join the Southeastern Petroleum Corp.
Will, who earned a master's from Duquesne U., was devoted to education and downhill skiing.
In addition to Anne, Will is survived by children Edith Metcalf Gingras, Kathleen Metcalf Edens, Christine, Mary, Brooks, and William, a sister, Anne, and eight grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its sympathy.
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Emmett Robert Murphy '45
Emmett Murphy died Dec. 1, 1998, following a brief illness and hospital stay.
Em attended Lawrenceville and then Notre Dame, transferring to Princeton at the start of his sophomore year. He left Princeton for service with the Navy in the Pacific theater, serving on a destroyer. After the war, he married the former Lila Stanley Sullivan, a graduate of Connecticut College for Women, and they had three children. They lived in Riverside, Conn., where Em was a member of the Riverside Yacht Club. He was a lifelong lover of opera, classics, astronomy, and sailing. In 1983 he won a silver tray as a proud member of a New York Yacht Club team which defeated the Royal Thames Yacht Club in a contest at Rye, N.Y.
Emmett's business career was in life insurance, working in Manhattan, where he lived in his later years and in retirement, and was a mainstay in organizing class activities at the Princeton Club, where he hosted weekly luncheons. Emmett is remembered and will be missed by his longtime companion Theresa Comer and by his children, Brian, Christopher, and Tom, to all of whom the class extends sympathy.
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Ernest William Swegler Jr. '45
Bill Swegler died Oct. 27, 1998, at his home in Hinsdale, Ill., after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Bill entered Princeton from the University School and was a member of Court Club. He earned a degree in chemistry in 1944 and then served as an electronics technician with the Navy, after which he took a graduate degree from Cornell. In 1948 Bill married the former Isabelle Lois Swensrud, with whom he raised a son and daughter. Bill was active in his community with political and social organizations, serving as Republican committeeman in Hinsdale and serving with the Hinsdale JCs and as president of the John Ericsson Republican League of Illinois. From 1969-71 he served on the DuPage County Board. As a memorial to Bill, the Illinois State Senate offered a resolution paying tribute to Bill's dedication to his community and his Republican Party service.
Bill is survived by his loving friend Charlotte Utley, his daughter Nancy Blake Anthony and son Jeffrey, four grandchildren, and a sister, Laura Warner. The class expresses its deep sympathy to all.
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