Jim died March 8, 2015, at home in Shaftsbury, Vt.

After preparing at Deerfield Academy, he majored in chemistry at Princeton. He was in the Glee Club, band, Triangle Club, and Quadrangle Club and was one of the original Nassoons. His roommates included Frank Gentes, Hud Stoddard, Jim Bell, Hugh Petersen, and Jim Lotspeich.

He served in the Navy in the Normandy invasion and spent six months in the Pacific. Jim married Callie Kountz in 1945 and received his Princeton degree in June 1946.

He spent his entire career with American Cyanamid in various places, including Princeton. Jim eventually became general manager of the agriculture division and retired as chairman and CEO of the company. He also served as a director of four other companies.

An avid baseball and football fan, Jim loved Big Band and classical music and fishing and boating on the St. Lawrence River. A golf devotee, he was a member of Augusta National Golf Club, where he once scored a hole-in-one. For years Jim served Princeton and ’44 for Special Gifts, attending 23 reunions.

Callie died after 55 years of marriage. Jim is survived by his children, Nancy McKenzie, Margaret, and James IV; his sister, May; five grandchildren, including Elizabeth ’98; and one great-granddaughter.

Undergraduate Class of 1944
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Graduate Class of 1949