Clifton R. Read ’29

CLIF DIED Jan. 30, 1994. He was born in St. Paul, Minn., and prepared for college at St. Paul Academy. At Princeton, he played freshman football, was on THE PRINCE., was v.P. of WhigClio, and was president of the Liberal Club. He belonged to Elm Club and roomed with Dick Okie.

He became a radio writer for NBC, program manager for WEVD, and publicity director for the American Civil Liberties Union. During the war, he was in the Office of War Information, chiefly in Belgrade. After that, he joined the American Cancer Society, for whom he worked the rest of his life. He headed a staff of TV, radio, science, and newswriters carrying on educational work against cigarettes and for various cancer causes. He was U.S. representative and chair of the committee on public education of the Intl. Union Against Cancer.

He later moved to Cornwall Bridge, Conn., where he was on the board of the Housatonic Mental Health Center and the Cornwall board of S.C.A.F. and the Commission on Housing and the Aging.

His first wife, Paula O'Connell, whom he married in 1940, is deceased. His second wife, Alice Winslow, survives, as do his daughters Alison Read and Sheila Botain. The class extends sincere sympathy to Clif's family.

The Class of 1929