Warren Rainear, known as Chief, died April 23, 2008. Until his retirement in 1976, he was the president of C.J. Rainear & Co., a distributor in Philadelphia of pipes, valves, and fittings, a post he had held since 1948. In 1978 he moved to a place in Homosassa, Fla., “right on a pond,” as he described it, “overlooking a golf course.”

Among his memories of Princeton, as he wrote some 60 years after college, were: “Alone in the library on spring prom night reading Schopenhauer. . . . Sitting at the piano with Willard Thorp, trying to transcribe for the piano a Mozart string quartet.
  . . . Observing students overturning a car on Nassau Street during the 1931 riot. . . . Seeing Jack Lovelock and Bill Bonthron run the fastest mile in history. . . . Sailing on the Ile de France , destination England, courtesy of the Princeton track team. . . . ”

Warren is survived by his wife, Dorothy Wetzel Rainear.

The Class of 1934