Thad died Nov. 2, 2007, in Casper Wyo., his lifelong home.

He prepared at Choate and came to Princeton with his younger brother, Dick Walker ’41. He started to major in civil engineering and was on the freshman football team. He left Princeton at the end of freshman year to attend the University of Colorado, earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

Thad joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. When flying out of ltaly, he was shot down over Szolnok, Hungary. Held as a prisoner of war, he was first at Stalag Luft III in Sagan, then moved to Nuremberg and lastly to Moosberg, where he was liberated on April 29, 1945.

Returning to Casper, he joined the family lumber business, becoming its president and retiring in 1979. Thad was president of Provident Savings & Loan from 1975 to 1988. He was president of the Casper Chamber of Commerce, served on the school board for nine years, was a trustee of Memorial Hospital for seven, and was a lifelong member of Rotary.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Eleanore Spencer Walker; three children, Ivy Parish, T. Drew, and Cameron ’72; and five grandchildren, including Kelcy ’01 and Brianna ’04.

Undergraduate Class of 1941