Carl Fluid Maples ’42 *48

Carl died June 22, 1998, in Knoxville, Tenn. He retired in 1990 after a long and distinguished career in architecture.

He prepared for Princeton at Staunton Military Academy, majored in architecture, and graduated with high honors. He spent three and a half years in the American and European theaters, in field artillery, during WWII, receiving the Bronze Star and five battle stars.

Following the war, he earned an MA in fine arts at Princeton in 1948, prior to establishing his own firm, Lindsay & Maples Architects, Inc., in his native Knoxville. Practicing in six counties, he specialized in hospitals and schools and did considerable work for the U. of Tennessee. He also was president of the East Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In the commercial sector he reorganized and became chairman of the board of Benco Plastics, a producer of indoor and outdoor plastic signs with national distribution.

Carl is survived by his wife, Mary Louise, sons Carl and David, daughters Mary Ann and Nancy, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, to whom the class extends its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942