William B. Everett ’46

In our 25th yearbook, Bill Everett said he was “instrumental in developing the containerized concept that formed a basis of piggy-back and seagoing containers, which have become a standard of the transportation industry.” By then he was well established as a principal of Chicago’s international management-consultant firm A.T. Kearney & Co., covering all phases of business enterprises, including financial control, production, industrial engineering, and marketing.

Result: He served the trucking industry as a national consultant on transportation and physical distribution. Later, Bill was a partner in Bowman-Everett & Associates of Memphis, consulting on industrial and mechanical engineering, mainly concerning the design of tools and machines.

Bill’s death May 23, 2012, left as survivors his wife, Dorothy Jeanne Robinson Everett; four children, Robin Everett Stanford, William Bailey Everett Jr., John Allan Everett, and Anne Everett Barton; four grandchildren; and three great-grandsons.

Bill cherished his Princeton undergraduate days as “a unique experience. Where else on Earth,” he said in 1996, “could a young man expect to meet Dr. Albert Einstein and share a hot dog with him at the ‘Jigger Man’s’ cart on a balmy evening?”