David Merle Corcoran ’25

DAVID CORCORAN, president and organizer of the international division of Sterling Products Co. for 40 years before his retirement in 1973, died in his sleep at his home in Waterville Valley, N.H., June 14,1990, at age 86.

He was president of his class at Pawtucket, R.I. High School. At Princeton he was on the football and track squads in freshman and sophomore years, and was a member of Tower. After Harvard Business School, he began his career with General Motors, serving as manager of their Tokyo office. In the late 1930s he organized Chinese defense supplies to provide military equipment to the Chinese in their war with Japan. He also helped organize the American Volunteer Group, known as the Flying Tigers, under General Claire Chennault. Since 1965 he has been a director of the Waterville Valley N.H., resort complex, created by his son Thomas.

Among his relatives was H. F. Corcoran '28, and a brother, Thomas. He is survived by his wife, the former Joan Woltman, three sons, two daughters, and eight grandchildren, to whom the Class extends sympathy.

The Class of 1925