Alexander Ginn ’34

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Sandy Ginn, a tax lawyer who specialized in estate planning and administration until he retired in 1978, died at his home June 8, 1999.

He grew up in Gates Mills, Ohio, and loved the Chagrin Valley area. In the 1970s he was a leader in the establishment of the Land Conservancy in Hunting Valley to preserve undeveloped land.

Following Princeton, Sandy attended Oxford U. for a year, then Yale law school. He joined the firm of Tolles Hogsett & Ginn, known today as Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, from which he retired as a partner.

Throughout his life Sandy continued the family tradition of supporting the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Museum of Art. He was a trustee of University School, from which he graduated first in his class in 1930, and served for many years on the vestry of his church in Gates Mills.

Sandy married Helen Vilas in 1938. She survives him as do their sons, Frank P. and Walter P.; daughters, Mary C. and Patricia G. Feeney; and eight grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1934

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