Donald Walter Milestone ’45

Donald died on Feb. 15, 2001, at the Cleveland Clinic after a short illness. A lifelong Ohio resident, Donald entered Princeton from Taft, joined Charter Club, and was a member of Whig-Clio. He left Princeton for the V-12 program at Columbia, serving in the Navy from 1943-47. In 1948 he married Suzanne Hutchinson and joined the Perfection Stove Co. in Cleveland. Donald spent the rest of a long and successful career with the Ohio Goggles Co., now Mack Products Co. of Cleveland. He was president when he retired. Donald noted in our 50th-reunion book that his formative years were spent arranging marketing agreements in Central and South America, Europe, the Near East, and Africa. He said that extensive travel gave him a unique understanding of the cultures of other peoples.

Donald was preceded in death by Suzanne and is survived by a son, Walter, two daughters, S. Victoria Wright and Nancy Gallion, his sister, Patricia Zonsius, and nine grandchildren. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1945