Douglas Hesketh Hahn ’34

Doug, prominent in Princeton and class affairs since he was president of his undergraduate eating club, died May 18, 2005, two months after the death of his wife, Gloria.

Over the years Doug had been class vice president, class vice president for Annual Giving, class agent, winner of our Award for Outstanding Achievement, co-chair with Ken Fairman of our 25th reunion, and editor of our 20th-year book. He also had been a Schools Committee chairman and Alumni Association president. He was national chairman of Annual Giving from 1964 to 1969. For the past nine years he lived at Meadow Lakes, a CCRC near Princeton.

Doug worked for 50 years "plus one day" at B. Altman & Co., the former New York department store, where he was advertising director until retirement in 1984. He was also president of the 34th Street Midtown Association and chairman of the New York State Retail Council in Albany, and served five years on the retail advisory council of the U.S. Department of Commerce. His free hours were so dominated by Princeton activities that he once wrote, "Princeton can be a life sentence."

Doug's first wife, Luella Cotterell, died in 1968. They had two children, James D. and Gail Austin, who survive, as do four grandchildren.

The Class of 1934