Allen Earle Whitman ’32

Services were held at Christ Church, in Roxbury, Conn., for Allen Whitman, who died on Sept 19, 1989, after three years of failing health. He came to us from the Gunnery School, and didn't get to know as many of us as we would have liked because he left before the end of freshman year.

Allen's spent his career in the insurance business. He put in a number of years with Aetna, specializing in casualty and marine coverage, but always had an eye out for a small firm that he could buy and run himself. He found one in Kent, Conn., ran it successfully for a number of years, then retired to live in Roxbury. An Episcopalian who was always interested in church work, he was first a senior warden of St Andrew's, in Kent, and later a senior warden of Christ Church. Allen loved sailing. He owned a Concordia yawl, Moonfleet, and sailed it on many summer cruises down the New England coast to Maine with his wife and four boys. He also took part in such offshore contests as the Newport-Halifax race. When all that became too strenuous, he traded in his Concordia for a trawler-type Grand Banks and took it south to Florida and the islands. During WWII, he saw active service with the Coast Guard.

Our sympathies go to his widow, the former Elizabeth Thomley, who survives him; four sons, Allen E. III '56, Johnston DeForest, Christopher, and Benjamin Thomley; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. We regret that we saw so little of this fine man.

The Class of 1932