A graduate of the Hill School, he majored in geology and joined Dial Lodge. He was the first member of the sixth generation of his family to graduate from Princeton — the first being in the Class of 1787.

He played freshman soccer and baseball, was active in Inter-club sports, joined Triangle Club, and participated in the choir and band.

Entering the Army in 1942, Herb served in the personnel distribution command, becoming chief of personnel statistics in Naples. He separated as a first lieutenant in 1945.

Herb joined Merck & Co. in the sales planning department, retiring as manager of general marketing service in 1972, under early-retirement provisions; he then moved to Falmouth, Mass.

Always active in Shrewsbury, N.J., community affairs, Herb was on the town council for 15 years and on the planning board for 16. In Falmouth he was on the town finance committee, treasurer of the Woods Hole Golf Club, and a volunteer (almost full time) at the local hospital. In 1999 he was named “philanthropist of the year” by the Cape Cod Planned Giving Council.

Predeceased by his wife of 45 years, Mary Haskell Jones Willet, Herb is survived by his sister, Carol Willett Rodman, and various nieces and nephews.

Undergraduate Class of 1941