John Foster Davidson ’34

John, who worked for more than 40 years in sales with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co. (later the Miehle-Graphic Systems division of Rockwell International) in Chicago, DC, Texas, NYC, and mostly in St. Louis, died Oct. 19, 2001. At his death he was 10 days short of 91.

John was married in 1940 to Eugenia "Gene" Dempsey, with whom, after he had retired, he spent much time in Ireland, from which her father had come as a boy. "We liked the people, the scenery, and most of all the slower pace," he wrote. But their "Midwestern roots" proved too strong, and they returned to St. Louis. Gene was killed in a car accident in 1992. "Life," John wrote to a classmate shortly afterward, "is different."

He is survived by a daughter, Mary Foster Officer, and a son, John.

The Class of 1934