Clarence S. Lovelace ’44

“Butsy” Lovelace died June 11, 2016.

A graduate of Gilman School, he majored in the humanities at Princeton. He was active in wrestling and lacrosse and served as vice president of Cap and Gown Club. His roommate for three years was Don Freeman.

Butsy entered the Navy in September 1943 and served as a lieutenant junior grade on a Pacific escort destroyer. He married Mary Jean Campbell in May 1944, and after separating from the Navy, returned to Gilman School to teach.

In 1948 he joined Time magazine in sales and then worked in sales for Fortune. He returned to Gilman to teach English and later became an independent investor and marketing consultant.

He introduced his four children to sailing, all enjoying their 40-foot sloop Turisios. Butsy wrote a book about Nantucket and one about a possible Lovelace ancestor, who in 1668 was the second governor of New York. Butsy was a trustee of Mystic Seaport Museum, commodore of Nantucket Yacht Club, and a member of the New York Yacht Club.

He is survived by his sons, Jeffrey and his wife, Judy; Donald; and David and his wife, Dayna; his daughter, Olivia, and her husband, Kenneth; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Mary Jean; sister Caroline; and brother Richard ’40.