Allen Partridge Burr ’49

AL BURR passed away peacefully Jan. 27, 1990, at his home in East Orange, NJ., at age 64.

Born July 18, 1925 in Jersey City, A] attended East Orange High School where he was on the varsity tennis team and participated in dramatic and glee club activities. Following high school, he served in the Army from Sept. 1943 to Nov. 1945 as an Infantry sergeant in the E.T.O. At Princeton Al majored in history, graduating with high honors, and was a member of Quadrangle. He was president of the Nassoons, vocalist with the Princeton Tigers Dance Band, a member of Triangle Club, and worked on a number of Student Aid squads.

Al began a lifetime career in personnel administration and executive search in 1953 with the California Texas Oil Co. in their N.Y. office. That same year he married Elizabeth Claire Yeomans, but they divorced some 20 years later. During those years Al became director of personnel services for George Fry & Associates, management consultants, later a partner in Burr, Lucey & Co., Burr, Dowd & Associates, and principal of International Management Advisers, Inc.

Al is survived by a sister, Esther Burr, and a brother, Robert Burr. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to them on losing their brother.

The Class of 1949