Charles W. Gregory ’55

Bill died Nov. 18, 2002, at Princeton Hospital from complications of prostate cancer. Born in Thayer, Kan., he came to Princeton from Las Vegas [Nev.] HS. At Princeton he was an English major and a member of Prospect Club.

Bill spent most of his professional life as a senior research associate at the Colgate Palmolive Research Center in Piscataway, N.J., where he was responsible for developing new computer technology.

His passion, however, was photography. Bill was a self-taught photographer who exclusively worked in black and white, with the exception of some of his commercial assignments. His photographs were featured in solo exhibitions at the J&J Consumer Products Gallery in 1999; the Bernstein Gallery at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 1998; and the Cameron Gallery in Princeton in 1997. His photos appeared regularly in Garden State Home and Garden, the Trenton Times, and the Princeton Packet. Bill also prepared a photographic record of the work of the sculptor Joe Brown.

Survivors include his wife, Helen Schwartz, son Charles Jr., daughter Elizabeth Rylak, stepchildren Lisa and Eric Schwartz, brother Jim, and three grandchildren.

The Class of 1955