Carl Bohnhorst Simonton ’37

We only received notice in Oct. 1997 of Carl Simonton's death on Aug. 29, 1992, of cancer. His wife, Rosemary, predeceased him, and in 1947 he said that the only other member of the household was "one dog, answering to the name of Miss Muffett," but he also left two daughters, Bonnie Schranz and Shelley Hunter, and three grandchildren.

Carl was class president and football quarterback at the Rayen School and into football, basketball, and crew at Hun School. He was on the freshman football team and crew at Princeton, where he was also a member of Cap and Gown, but left at the end of freshman year.

Carl described himself as essentially an industrial purchasing agent and manufacturers' representative, first with American Bleached Goods Co. in New York. After four miserable years in the Pacific in the Marine Corps, rising from private to first lieutenant, he joined Youngstown Welding and Engineering Co. and finally the Dolite Co., a subsidiary of Chas. Pfizer and Co., where he sold that company's dolomite products, minerals, pigments, and metals to the steel and chemical industries. When the plant was closed down in 1976 by the Environmental Protection Agency, he retired to his native Youngstown, Ohio.

The Class of 1937