Clarence Gunther ’26

Clarence Gunther died May 18, 1999.

At Princeton he was active with the radio club. After graduation he married Margaret Bingham. He spent four years developing electronics for railroad shops and aircraft at GE in Schenectady, N.Y., then transferred to RCA in Camden, N.J.

During WWII he took commando training and served on a panel advising the secretary of war on early warning and aids to bombing. He received a citation from the secretary of the Navy. During the Korean War, he spent time at the front studying how electronics could help the Army. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, served as chairman of the Philadelphia section, and chaired or was a member of several technical and industry committees setting electronic standards.

During his retirement, he did consulting work, including a joint US-British classified project in the North Sea. He enjoyed tennis and golf, but especially fishing, which Marge and he did from Alaska to Nova Scotia and from Hudson Bay to Mexico. He lost both his wife and son Bill '50 to cancer in 1983. He moved to Florida and was a founder of the ex-RCAers, and a member of the Princeton Alumni Assn. of South Florida.

He is survived by his grandson, Tom, and his daughter-in-law.

The Class of 1926