Donald K. Orr ’54

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Class officers were sorry to learn recently of the death of Donald K. Orr, Sept. 24, 2004.

He prepared for Princeton at Granite City High School, and while at the University was active in the Chicago and St. Louis clubs. He left Princeton during his freshman year.

His roommate, Wayne Lawson, believed that he was studying to be an engineer, and recalled him as "a nice, quiet guy" who seemed to feel homesick. Wayne noted that the photograph published with Donald's name in our Nassau Herald and 50th-reunion book was not a picture of Donald. The correct photo appears in the Freshman Herald.

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