Princeton University Archives


Re From the Archives, Nov. 19: The team member who is second from the left, wearing a cap, is my father, Gordon Bonnyman ’41. I don’t know who won the match that was captured in the photograph. I do know that in 1940 the Princeton team won the Second Annual Lordship Intercolle-giate Skeet Championship in Lordship, Conn., because when my father died in 2004, I inherited a small silver cup given to members of the team upon winning the match. My father remained an excellent shot and avid hunter all of his life. A Google search discloses that the site of the Lordship skeet competitions — which appear to have been the national championships for decades — was a shooting range on Long Island Sound owned by Remington. (It is now a Superfund site because the lead shot has polluted the groundwater and the nearby Long Island Sound.) Gordon Bonnyman’s older brother, Alexander Bonnyman ’32, attended Princeton, as have all three of his sons (Gordon Bonnyman Jr. ’69, Alexander A. Bonnyman ’78, and Brian Bonnyman ’85) and a grandson (Norman Bonnyman ’12).

Gordon Bonnyman Jr. ’69