John Selden Parker Jr. ’54

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John Parker died Sept. 11, 2010.  

Born in Flushing, N.Y., his family moved to Princeton, where he graduated from Princeton High School.  

John majored in engineering and was a member of the marching band and WPRU. He left Princeton at the completion of his freshman year and enrolled in Rutgers University, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree.  

The class has no further information available at this time, but sends condolences to John’s brother, Gordon; and his sister, Joan.

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