Carl Rogge Hilgenberg ’29

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Hilgy died Oct. 12, 1995. Most of his life had been in Baltimore, where he prepared at Gilman. At Princeton his roommates were Jack Sadtler and Towney Wilder. He left Princeton in June 1928 to work with the Carr-Lowrey Glass Co., of which he became v.p. in 1942.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Rianhard Hilgenberg and by a daughter, Elizabeth Heminway, and two sons, Carl and John. The class extends sincere sympthy to Hilgy's family.

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