Allen died May 4, 2010, in Newark, Del., after a lengthy illness. He was 87.
Coming to Princeton from Burbank (Calif.) High School, he was active in Whig-Clio and Key and Seal, majored in politics, and received his accelerated degree in 1943. After training as a Marine pilot, he won his wings in September 1945.
Feeling a law degree might help him in business, Allen graduated from Harvard Law School. He started a career in banking, beginning with the First National Bank of Boston, in its Brazilian office. Later, he joined the Federal Reserve System, first in San Francisco and later in Washington, D.C. He retired after 10 years as a vice president of Chase Manhattan.
Allen loved Princeton and ’44. He attended every reunion from the 22nd through the 65th and all of the class mini-reunions, including those in Scotland and in Portugal/
Spain. He also served as president of the Princeton Alumni Association of Delaware. With pride, he noted that he had driven across the country 10 times, always stopping to see friends.
Allen stayed active in St. Nicholas Episco-
pal Church in Newark, where he had been senior warden and treasurer, despite spending part of each year in Costa Rica. His fervent affection for ’44 shall be missed.
Allen had no immediate survivors.