Donald Waldo Hirschberger ’44

Don died April 14, 2007, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, in Palm Desert, Calif., his and his wife Bobbie’s home since 1999. He was 85.

Don was born in Portland, Ore. At Princeton, he was a member of the Westminster Society and Tower Club, majored in economics, and roomed with George Odland, Brooks Hall, and John Aalfs. He graduated magna cum laude in 1943, married Mary Jane Tillman, and served as an officer in the Marine Corps’ Pacific campaigns.

After earning an MBA from Harvard Business School, he began a long, honored business career in Portland, including 23 years as founder and chairman of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association. In retirement, he accepted Executive Service Corps foreign assignments and co-founded an Outward Bound school.

Don was active in regional Princeton affairs, a master ship-model builder, and a golfer. After his wife died, he was reunited by Bob Sears with Barbara “Bobbie” Roberts, whom he’d known since college. They were married in 1999 (of which Don wrote warmly in our 60th-reunion book).

Don’s survivors also include four daughters, Holly Merrigan, Wendy Weigman, Laurie Pink, and Emily Gordon; a son, Hans; four grandchildren; and a stepdaughter, Holly Hopper Clifford. “He truly loved Princeton,” Bobbie wrote. The love is returned. Our condolences go to them all.