Boynton M. Rawlings ’58

Boynt died Dec. 20, 2022, in Normandy, France. He was 87.

He came to Princeton from the Choate School. At Princeton, Boynt sang with the Boomerangs and the Tigertones (of which he was president) and belonged to Campus Club. His senior-year roommates were Fred Wardenburg, Fred Pettit, Rocky Potts, and Rod Johnstone.

He graduated from Stanford Law School, and after practicing in various places, Boynt started his own law firm in Paris, France. In 1996, he helped found the Paris Choral Society.

Boynt loved nothing more than strumming classic American ballads on the banjo for family and friends, especially at his beloved 16th-century country home L’Ancien Presbytère, in Montreuil-en-Auge, Normandy. In 2019, he hosted a well-attended mini-reunion there, on the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. He was a real authority on that period of history.

Boynt is survived by his wife, Kathy; his daughter, Laura; his sons, James and William; two stepdaughters, Sophie and Julie Fabre; and his five grandchildren, Fiore and Nicholas Petricone, Adelaide Rawlings, and Harlow and Finley Rawlings. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them all.