Hank died Jan. 7, 2007, at home in Vero Beach, Fla.

A Providence, R.I., native, Hank majored in economics and was circulation manager of The Daily Princetonian and a member of Colonial Club. He had seven “friends-for-life” roommates in junior and senior year.

Hank started in the textile business with Clark Thread Co. of Newark, N.J. He enlisted as a private in the Army Ordnance Department in 1942 and served in England, Germany, and central Europe. He left the service in 1945 as a second lieutenant, having earned three battle stars. He was president of Cross Yarns, Inc. of East Orange, N.J., until 1955, when he abandoned textiles and joined a Wall Street brokerage firm. He retired in 1978 and moved to Vermont.

Hank was on the board of Dunn & Bradstreet for 29 years. Whether in New Jersey or Vermont, Hank volunteered for the YWCA, YMCA, the United Fund, and local hospitals.

He married Marion Gordon in 1948. They became snowbirds and eventually spent winters in Vero Beach. They had four children, Carol D. Cross, Leigh McLean, Henry B. Cross III, and kenneth G. Cross, and eight grandchildren.

We will miss our esteemed classmate.

Undergraduate Class of 1936