Aiken Reichner Jr. ’47

Aiken died June 18, 1999, of a heart attack. The class has lost one of its most colorful, jovial, and cosmopolitan members. Aiken's family had a long connection with Princeton. He followed his father '21 and grandfather Class of 1894. His father died shortly after Aiken's birth and in the 1930's and Aiken left his native Philadelphia to live with his mother in Florence, Italy.

Aiken prepared for Princeton at Penn Charter and St. Paul's School. When many of us joined him in the Navy V-12 Princeton, we realized we had met a lifetime friend. Upon returning from the Pacific and China, Aiken lived the good life in Cottage Club with fellow '47 campus exiles, Hendrickson, Hawes, Landon, and V. Wagner.

After graduation in 1948, he established an automobile dealership in Chestnut Hill, Pa., which ultimately led to his long career in the international automobile business in Switzerland, the Middle East, and Africa.

Aiken' s high spirits will be missed by all who knew him. The class extends its deepest sympathies to his daughters, Cristin and Sally, his sons, Jaffrey and Morgan, his half-brothers, Kaighn and Isaac H. Clothier IV '54, and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1947