Donald R. Deveaux ’47

This brilliant academic record foreshadowed Don’s very successful business career in the steel industry. His managerial talents led to appointments as CEO for several companies, but from the 1970s onward, he witnessed with sadness the decline of this great industry.

Don married Jane Shirley in 1950. They had five children who produced a brood of 15 grandchildren. Sadly, Jane died in 1982; happily Don found and married Shirley Watson in 1983 and added five stepchildren plus spouses to his already considerable, much-enjoyed tribe.  

Don and Shirley retired to his longtime second home in Hilton Head, S.C., where, inter alia, he enjoyed a fine view of sunsets over the marshes and good times with his family.  

“Princeton was my greatest experience,” he wrote in our 40th yearbook, and happily he lived to see two children plus three grandchildren follow him there.

He died on June 24, 2009. We send our warm wishes to Shirley and all of the family.