Albert Whitney Waldron ’39

Whit died Jan. 5, 2002, at a hospital near his home in San Diego.

He was a lifelong bachelor and an inveterate student. A social philosophy major at Princeton, he entered the Army and soon found himself in the weather school, and from there, at OCS. Upon receiving his commission, he transferred to the Air Force and from 1940-60 served in India, Burma, China, and Japan. A lieutenant colonel when he retired, he switched to the civil service, doing meteorological research for the Army at the Dugway Proving Grounds, near Salt Lake City. He had earned a master's in meteorology at the U. of Chicago in 1950 and was a member of the American Meteorological Society. He retired in 1985.

The partial deafness that had been with him since a boyhood accident grew ever worse. He told us in our 50th book, "I play some golf despite a bad back, walk frequently, and do some photography. I am learning sign language because of my hearing problem, but find it harder than second-year French."

With his surviving brother, Stoddard, we bid farewell to our old friend.

The Class of 1939