Don died May 28, 2015, in Fort Myers, Fla.

After graduating from St. Paul’s School, he followed his father, a 1907 graduate, to Princeton and majored in economics. Don was involved with The Daily Princetonian and was in Charter. His roommates included Roger Ward, Monty Peck, and Barney Holland.

He spent three years in the Navy on amphibious ships in the Mediterranean as a commanding officer of a rocket ship. Upon discharge, Don earned a master’s degree from NYU and attended Harvard’s advanced-management program.

He joined Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was associated with the oil industry and was a bank vice president. After that, Don joined Argyle Research Corp. He was a member of the Princeton Club of New York and attended 22 class reunions before retiring in 1983 and moving to Sanibel Island, Fla., and then to Fort Myers.

A man of great principle, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Don is survived by three children from his first marriage, David, Hillary, and Lindsay; four grandchildren; his wife, Florence; her son, Philip Ruesch; and one niece. Preceding him in death were his daughter, Caroline; a stepson, Daniel Ruesch; and his sister, Dorothy Williams.

Undergraduate Class of 1944