Benjamin Holliday Taplin ’36

BEN DIED of cancer July 10, 1990 in Cleveland , Oh. He attended the Hawken School of Cleveland and graduated from Choate School. At Princeton he majored in politics and he was a member of Tiger Inn.

He spent some 36 years with Pickands Mather and Co., retiring in 1972 after which he and his wife, Betsy, moved to Dublin, N.H. In 1989 they returned to Cleveland.

Ben entered military service as a private in late 1940 and was separated as a captain early in 1946. He served with the mechanized cavalry in the European theater and was wounded in 1944. He received three battle stars.

He was a deacon of Fairmont Presbyterian Church, a trustee of the Youth Services Council and was president of the Hawken School Alumni Assn. He was a member of the Tavern Club, Union Club, Kirtland Country Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club and the Dublin Lake Club. His hobbies were horseback riding and golf.

In 1944 Ben married Elizabeth Olney, whom he met while both were Army lieutenants at Fort Riley, Kansas. She survives him, as do two sons, Benjamin H. Jr. and Courtenay O., and two grandchildren. His brother, C. Farrand Taplin Jr. '31 predeceased him.

Ben was a very loyal Princetonian and classmate. We of the Class will always remember his outgoing personality, his warm sense of humor and his devotion to his family and friends.

The Class of 1936