Bentley Grimes McCloud Jr. ’34

Bent McCloud, who retired in 1974 as executive v.p. of First Natl. Bank of Chicago after 40 years, died Aug. 2, 1996. He was 85. He headed the bank's international department for four years and started branches in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and London. Later he headed and reorganized the bond trading department.

An active Princetonian, Bent was president of the Princeton Club of Chicago (195455) and helped organize the Princeton Club of S.W. Florida (1979). He had had a condominium in Naples, Fla., since the early 1970s.

As a Navy lt. (j.g.) in WWII, Bent was attached in 1944 to the Navy's Finance Division, Office of Procurement and Materiel, in Washington. He was appointed chief in 1945 and released from active duty the next year.

In 1934 Bent married Sally Clark, of Wilmette, Ill., whom he had dated in college. She died in 1982, and he married Johanna Schultes, who survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Sandra, Katherine, and Melissa, a stepson, Alex, six granddaughters, and three grandsons. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934