William Johns Andrews ’42

Bill died May 2, 2001, of melanoma at Layhill Center in Silver Spring, Md. A CIA researcher, he retired in 1981.

Coming to Princeton from Knoxville [Tenn.] H.S., Bill majored in physics and was a member of Court Club. He spent four years in the Army Signal Corps, mostly in the Aleutian Islands, as a 1st lieutenant during WWII. After the war he received a master's degree and a doctorate in physics from the U. of Virginia. He came to Washington in the late 1950s and worked briefly at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and for several small consulting and research companies before joining the CIA, where he worked 17 years before retiring. He did volunteer work also for the Bethesda YMCA and Boys and Girls Homes and Community Services, Inc.

Survivors include his wife, Geraldine; two children, Barbara and Robert; and four grandchildren; to all of whom the class offers its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942