Walter Seymour Shingle ’41

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Sy Shingle died Aug. 29, 1995, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife, Priscilla, had passed away a scant month before he did. Sy didn't graduate with us, and there is little we know about him except that he operated a beef-cattle ranch on the island of Hawaii and reported for our 50th yearbook that "I am not famous." A phone call to a daughterinlaw at a Marine base in Kailua extracted the understanding that a newspaper obit copy would be forthcoming. But it never came. The recording secretary's office lists a daughter Muriel Shingle as a survivor, but no address. We wish we had known him better.

The Class of 1941

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