Benson Blake III ’29

BENSON DIED Aug. 14, 1992. He had prepared at Gilman. At Princeton, he rowed crew and was a member of the University Concerts Committee. He was in Cap and Gown and Do Warriner and Johnny Rockefeller were his roommates. He started his career as a banker and in 1938 became assistant treasurer of the Rockefeller Foundation. After the war, he went with Guaranty Trust, which later became Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., from which he retired as V.P. in 1971.

He served in the Air Corps in the office of statistical control, retiring as a first lieutenant. He greatly enjoyed physical labor on his 50acre estate in Nyack. He was on the vestry of Grace Episcopal Church in Nyack, and was a trustee and treasurer of the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. In 1940 lie married Mary T. Bradley, and she survives, together with their two daughters, Mary Markoff arid Bettina Girdwood, and two sons, Benson Jr. and James F. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Benson's family.

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