Alfred C. Pollock Jr. ’37

Super salesman of steel and bridge expert, Al (a.k.a. Ace) Pollock died Mar. 27, 1998. Since 1993 he had been quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair as the result of a fall and a broken neck. His wife of 28 years, Dorothy, died in 1980. He left sons Charles '57 and James '65, five grandchildren, and a brother, Keller.

At Arnold School (now Shady Side Academy) he earned varsity letters in football, basketball, track, and tennis and was active in dramatics. He majored in economics at Princeton, and he was end on the football team for three years and a member of Cap and Gown. His senior thesis on the thennew Social Security system forecast an instability when the proportion of the population over age 65 became large compared to the size of the working population.

His entire career was with James & Laughlin Steel Corp. (now LTV) from 1937 until his retirement in 1970. He was in various selling capacities in Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Columbus, Dayton, and finally in Pittsburgh, where he was born, as district sales manager in the early 1960's. He set sales records in almost every year during his tenure. Later, he moved to Reston, Va., to be near his family.

The Class of 1937