Howie succumbed to Alzheimer’s April 9, 2007.
One of our brightest shining stars is dimmed. Howie came to Princeton from Albany Academy. He was business manager of Triangle, advertising manager of The Daily Princetonian, and president of Charter. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1938.
Howie had two loves: Lucy Colpitts of Princeton, whom he married in 1936, and Princeton University. He started consummating No. 2 when he convinced President Dodds to hire him to teach in the engineering school. He taught business administration and became assistant dean. He also became close adviser to hundreds of students. Our class regularly witnessed his popularity when, in the P-rade, his name was called from the sidelines and he renewed friendships. The American Society for Engineering Education awarded Howie one of three prizes as a most effective teacher of engineering students. Not bad for a politics major.
Howie was class president from 1951 to 1956. He ran most of our major reunions and many minor ones. He and Lucy, an honorary member of our class, hosted parties for classmates before and after football games at their lovely Hodge Road home in Princeton.
Lucy died in 1994. Howie is survived by their children, Molly, Walter, Nelle, and Howard III; a brother Louis; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. We sympathize with them on their great loss.