Algernon Sebastian Gardiner Jr. ’36

Al died Dec. 31, 1998, at Memorial Hospital in Easton, Md. He was 85 and had resided in Neavitt, Md., since 1978. After graduating from Lawrenceville he joined our class in 1932. We are sorry that he left Princeton in 1933.

He was engaged in real estate sales with his father until enlisting in the Marines about one year before the war ended.

After his release from service he returned to A.S. Gardiner and Co. After his father died, he became president of the firm until it closed in the late 1970s. He became a consulting real estate appraiser for Home Federal Savings and Loan Bank, from which he retired in 1993.

He was a senior member of the Society of Realty Appraisers, an emeritus member of the Washington Board of Realtors, a member of the Chevy Chase Club, a board member of the trustees of the Landon School of Bethesda, Md., and on Washington's board of the Children's Hospital.

Al is survived by his wife, the former Gene Whiteside, whom he married in 1936; daughters Nancy G. Begley and Suzanne M.; a son, A. Garrett; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. We of the class send our sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1936