Challen R. Parker ’32

AFTER A LONG and difficult struggle with leukemia, Bill Parker died in Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 10, 1990. He came to us from Hotchkiss, and roomed all four years with the late Huck Cochran. Bill was a wellknown and respected member of our Class. He played on the varsity soccer, hockey, and baseball teams. He was also assistant manager of football, chairman of the intra-collegiate athletic assn., and a member of Ivy.

Bill was one of a large cadre of Yale and Princeton graduates recruited by the Central Hanover Bank in 1932. All the others drifted off into various careers, but Bill stayed the course, retiring as a V.P. in 1974 after 42 years with what became a much larger bank, Manufacturers Hanover. During WWII he served in the Marine Corps. What had made him a good athlete also made him a good marine and a good banker: dogged determination to do his best.

Bill was married twice, first to the former Betty Putnam, who bore him three children, Penelope, Betty Tucker, and William. After Betty's death he married the former Joan Post, who brought to the family three children of her own. All of them survive, as well as one grandchild and three stepgrandchildren. We send deepest sympathy to all of them.

The Class of 1932