My mother, Mary Tiernan Crane McShane, and her husband Bruce Crane ’46 lived on Lake Carnegie in the married student housing when they were first married in 1946 and returned to Princeton so that Bruce could finish his degree. Bruce Crane died in 1950 in a car crash and my mother married another Princeton graduate Gordon McShane ’45 three years later. My brother Bruce and I were adopted and our name changed on our birth certificates from Crane to McShane. I was born in Princeton, Nov. 14, 1947, while Mary and Bruce Crane were living in the Lake Carnegie housing. I am in the process of writing a family memoir and have nothing but unsubstantiated stories of that period of my parents’ life. I was delighted to find this article from the PAW written by Petey Funk and wanted to see if she or anyone at Princeton has any more information about my father Bruce Crane or can direct me to further information on that housing.
In Response to: Life in ‘The Project’