Dean Hill Jr. ’37

Dean Hill died Sept. 6, 1996, of leukemia. He was an indefatigable worker in the vineyards of our class and of Princeton, working on reunion committees, class dinners, Annual Giving, the 1959 $53-million special gifts committee, the Eddie Zanfrini Fund, and our 50th yearbook. He engineered the 1957 insuranceJanney bequest'37 fund, presenting Pres. Dodds, who entered Princeton with our class, with over $300,000 for the 1937 Dormitory. He was class president (195257) and secretary (195962).

At Bronxville H.S., Dean was a standout in football, basketball, and baseball, a class officer, and he was active in drama. Coming to Princeton, he majored in geology and continued playing the three sports, including captaining the baseball team in our senior year. His club was Tiger Inn.

Following graduation, Dean tried out with the N.Y. Giants baseball team, but instead he went to Benton & Bowles for two years. He then moved to Time Inc.'s advertising department for the rest of his career, managing the Philadelphia office from 1949 until returning to their NYC office, from which he retired in 1973. Dean joined the Navy before Pearl Harbor. He tested flying boats at the Glenn Martin Co., then piloted heavy patrol bombers over the seas of the ETO and Africa, emerging as a lt. commander.

Dean leaves behind his wife, Lucinda; son Ted '73 with two children; a sister; and nephew Jim Morgan '63, who has two Princeton-graduate daughters.

The Class of 1937