Benjamin Goodman ’24

BEN GOODMAN, our Memphis classmate, died May 28, 1994, at his home in Memphis. Ben came to Princeton from Memphis Univ. School. He engaged in several extracurricular activities: freshman track, swimming, crew, Whig Hall, and the Polity and Southern clubs. He won high honors in history and politics, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

At Harvard Law School, from which he graduat­ed magna cum laude in 1927, he was a member of the Ames Competition-winning Scott Law Club and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1926, Ben spent his entire professional life with the same Memphis law firm, Armstrong, McCadden, Allen, Braden & Goodman. At his death, he was of counsel to the firm.

He was active in Memphis's legal, educational, religious, community, and charitable affairs. From 1955-61, he served on the Natl. Board of Gover­nors of the American Red Cross. Among other honors, he received the degree of doctor of humanities from Memphis College of Art in 1978.

During WWII, from 1942-1946, Ben served in the U.S., England, and Germany, rising from cap­tain to lt. col. in the army air corps. He enjoyed a lifetime of extensive travel.

Ben is survived by several nieces and nephews, grandnieces and nephews, and great-grandnieces and nephews, to whom we extend our sympathy.