One of our youngest classmates, Earle Herrold was just 16 years and 7 months old when we first gathered in June 1942. On turning 18, he became an Army Signal Corps radio operator in Aruba, the Netherlands, and the West Indies. Back on campus, he majored in psychology, graduating in June 1949.
Liking Earle’s radio-operator experience and his having earned honors in psychology, Bell Telephone put him to work in Maryland for six years in a variety of jobs and locations. Then, seeking warmer climes, he moved to Southern Bell in Florida. There his 27 years of interesting assignments showed him the state from Pensacola to Key West.
In retirement, Earle specialized as a real-estate appraiser and worked with his wife, Germaine, in real-estate brokerage, with weekends on the water at Key Largo and lengthy autumn visits to the Harrisburg, Pa., area.
When Earle died Jan. 21, 2012, he was survived by Germaine; daughters Navy Capt. Susan Herrold, Kimberley Herrold Wade, and Yvette Herrold Doherty; and two grandchildren. To them all, ’46 expresses sincere condolences.