Bill died Feb. 9, 2014, in Phoenix, Ariz., after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
He grew up in Omaha, Neb., and attended Benson High School, where he achieved All-City honors as a football center.
Bill came to Princeton with Benson classmates Dwayne Jelinek and Tim Newens, rooming with them freshman year in Brown Hall. Bill joined Tim as a civil engineering major and also received his master’s degree in structural engineering at Princeton. Bill was a member of Cloister Inn, where he served as athletic director, and was on the senior board of the IAA.
After Princeton, he moved to California, spending three years in the aerospace industry in Los Angeles. In 1968 he began a long career with the California Department of Transportation, where he served as senior engineer responsible for fabrication, repair, and rehabilitation of steel bridges. Bill did volunteer work for the National Academy of Science and the American Society of Welding. Always the athlete, his favorite leisure activity was bicycle touring with friends in Sacramento, especially riding thousands of miles to raise funds for the American Lung Association.
His brother, Charles R. Crozier, and his sister, Merrie Courtright, survive him. The class extends its condolences for their loss.