Albin Pilkington Cruitchfield ’30

AL DIED AT HIS HOME in Deland, Fla., Man 12, 1991. A native of Sewickley, Penn., Al left Princeton after junior year but continued to study at the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Duffs Iron City College while working in the sales department of American Fruit Growers Inc. Citrus fruit became his career field and his experiences and areas of interest and effort were many and varied. Al and his brother Robert '32 had a brief partnership growing oranges in Texas (halted by bad freezes) but Florida is where Al made a large contribution to the citrus industry culminating in a nineyear tenure on the Florida Citrus Commission from 1972 to 1981. Al was an active Rotarian from 1934 to 1989 and he gave very freely of his time in many capacities for his church, his community, and on the civic organizations.

In 1935 he married Mary Elizabeth Riske, who survives. Other survivors are: a daughter, Anne McDowell; two sons, Albin Jr. and Sheldon; three sisters, Harriet Omdorff, Alice Wadsworth, and Margaret Roy; his brother, Robert; eleven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. We deeply sympathize with the family in the loss of this fine man.

The Class of 1930