Donald R. Pierce ’47

DON DIED SUDDENLY Mar. 20, 1992, after a brief illness. His death deprived Princeton of one of its most enthusiastic alumni. Our 40th reunion yearbook records his glowing tribute to the University, especially as it was during his undergraduate years, No doubt the beauty of the campus seemed all the greater to himas a student in the late 1940sfor the contrast it made with the grin scenes he had witnessed as an infantry combat sergeant in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. At Princeton he joined Cottage Club and was an eager participant in J.V. football and track. After graduation, in 1950, he went to work in Fort Lauderdale for his father's enterprises: the Pierce Country Day Camp and School and Camp Birchmont. In 1957 his father turned the business over to him and his three brothers. Later Don moved to Manhasset, I.[., where he took up boating, after training with the U.S. Power Squadrons, District Three. A few years before his death, he retired to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but he maintained a second home in Roslyn, L.I.

Those of us who attended the recent minireunion in Wilmington will not soon forget the pleasure Don took in recording the events of the weekend with his video camera. The face behind the camera will be much missed. To his widow, Betty, and to his daughters Donna '77 and Jennifer, we extend our deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1947