Andrew Douglas Hall ’32

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Doug, an investment banker, inventor, and connoisseur of old clocks, died Dec. 10, 2000, in Durham, N.C. He was 90.

Doug attended Kent School before coming to Princeton, where he was a member of Quadrangle Club. He started his career as an investment banker with Bonbright & Co. and, four years later, moved to Morgan Stanley & Co. In 1945 he joined Diamond Match Co., subsequently Diamond Intl. He was elected vice president and assistant treasurer in 1949. In 1950 he was elected financial vice president, and in 1952 he was elected a director. He resigned as an officer in 1959 and became a partner of Morgan Stanley & Co. In 1962 he relinquished his partnership to become financial vice president of Stauffer Chemical Co., where he was elected a director in 1962. In 1967 he resigned from Stauffer Chemical and continued in the field as a consultant.

Doug was predeceased by his wife, who died in 1997. He is survived by two sons, Andrew Jr. and Benjamin, three daughters, Emlen Hall Ehrlich, Anne Hall, and Lindsey Cohn, nine grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter, to whom the class send its condolences.

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