The Class of 1923 lost its one and only Jim Hardin on Oct. 16, 1989, when our distinguished artist left our ranks at the Saybrook Convalescent Home from complications following a stroke.
Adlai was born in Minneapolis on Sept. 23, 1901, but grew up in Chicago. He prepared for college at the Chicago Latin School. During his four years at Princeton, Jim was the art editor of both the Tiger and the Pictorial Campus Magazine. His years on the swimming team and on the undefeated all-American water-polo team made him a member of the Varsity Club. He also belonged to the Life Saving Club, Whig Hall, and Quadrangle Club. Always a loyal Tiger, Adlai served on the advisory council for the Chapel and edited our Ten Year Book, in 1933. Examples of his career as a sculptor are on the rear wall of the University Store, in the Aquinas Chapel, at Maclean House (the bronze head of Don Griffin), and the 1923 class cane (topped by his silver tiger), carried since 1951 by the oldest graduate in the P-rade. In the late 1950s, Adlai retired, after 27 years as an executive with the advertising firm William Esty Co., to devote his time to sculpture.
Adlai was married to the late Carol Moore and is survived by two children, Carol H. Kimball and Adlai S. Jr. '59, and six grandchildren. We share with Adlai's family both their loss and their pride in the life and achievements of a man who died of having lived.
The Class of 1923