Donald Cortlandt Manders ’46

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Don Manders died Nov. 25, 2006, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. He was 82.

He prepped at Phillips Exeter Academy, majored in SPIA at Princeton, and graduated in 1949 after serving in the Army during World War II. He roomed with ’46ers R.S. Allyn and R.H. Webster, and was active in Whig-Clio, the International Affairs Club, and Tower Club.

After Princeton he graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and became the standards manager for Pepperidge Farm Inc. in Norwalk, Conn.

He is survived by his wife, Norma; children Robert, Marcia, Michele, and Melissa; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

To all, the class extends its deep sympathy.

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