The following memorial was published online with the July 8, 2015, issue.

Jim died Nov. 11, 1998. His death certificate listed him as "disabled," though we have no details about his afflictions.

Jim was born in Lowell, Mass., and grew up in Weymouth. He came to Princeton from Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree. Freshman year he roomed in Brown Hall with Bill Levinson, the late Pete Love, and John Carter (who graduated with '63).

"I always liked him," Bill reports but added that "to preserve my sanity," he moved to a single after the first semester.

"I remember him as a fun-loving guy who played rock and roll incessantly on a little 45 turntable he kept on his desk and drove me totally nuts. He and Pete and Jack were all on probation by midterms freshman year.

"We were all recruited to play football. Jimmy was the starting fullback on the freshman team. Jack played tailback. I had knee surgery and couldn't play that year.

"Jimmy took me to my first Catholic Church service and stopped me just in time from taking the communion wafer," Bill also recalls. "I don't think he'd ever known a Jew until he met me, much less one that played football; we were kind of exploring one another's worlds there for a while."

Cannon Club mates recall that injuries curtailed Jim's Princeton football career: "I remember Jim as one of the most highly recruited football players who hurt his knees early at Princeton," Bill Newlin reports.

Almost all who responded to calls for remembrances wrote: "A great party guy ... Jim made me laugh."

"I think Jim drank more beer than me but who knows," added Chris Binner.

John Harris remembers Jim saying he was "joining those gentlemen from Princeton exploring the field of psychology as a major."

After graduating, he married Susan Joy Mair, whom he met at Princeton. Bill Newlin recalls how they met: "Ann (my Princeton girlfriend and wife) invited a friend of ours from high school to a Princeton weekend to be with a roommate. Instead she saw Jim from across the room in his black T-shirt (his usual wear) and sunglasses, and we introduced them. Jim was very 50's-60's cool. They eventually got married."

The couple had two children, James J. and Cheryl Anne. They lived in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area for many years. Princeton University records indicate that Jim earned a graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and that he worked for U.S. Steel and for the Southern Railroad.

The couple had divorced by the time of Jim's death and he had returned to Weymouth. Survivors included his children and his father, Joseph Lynch. The class has been unable to find the children.

Undergraduate Class of 1962