Aubrey Kenneth Gorman ’46

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Aubrey died Aug. 26, 2002, of lung disease in Rockport, Maine, near his Camden home. A Baltimorean, he prepped at the Gilman School.

Joining the Air Force in 1943, he became a first lieutenant P-47 fighter pilot, earning the Air Medal for 21 missions over Italy and the Balkans. After Princeton, Aubrey became a reporter for the Baltimore Sun but left to join the Rouse Co., the redeveloper of Baltimore Harbor. Aubrey served as president of Enterprise Development, a Rouse venture to assist poor people to enter business. Aubrey was a lifelong avid fisherman in Alaska, Montana, Boca Grande, and Maine.

Married for 40 years to Jacquelin Woods, who died in 1988, Aubrey was father of a son, Arthur, who died at age 30; and four daughters, Powel, Jacquelin, Sally, and Mary. He married Alice Gorman in 1991, who, with his daughters and her three children and 10 grandchildren, all survive. Aubrey's father was Douglas 1903. Princeton brothers were Douglas '35, Edmund '36, and Arthur '38. With his wife and family, the class mourns his passing.

The Class of 1946

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