Douglas Remington Nichols ’17

Doug Nichols died June 6, 1999. He was 104. He came to Princeton from Llewellyn Park in West Orange, N.J., as did his friend and classmate, Whit Landon. Doug attended Newark Academy before entering Princeton, where he was a member of Cottage Club. He was treas. of Nichols Copper Co., a division of privately owned Nichols Chemical Co. He retired at age 38 to pursue his consuming interest in upland game shooting, big-game hunting, and fishing. He was national 28-gauge skeet champion in 1935 and a member of the Campfire Club of America for more than 50 years. In later years he lived in Pottersville, N.J., and at his hunting lodge in North Carolina. For the past 20 years he resided at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, N.J., where he had many Princeton friends. He was devoted to Princeton and attended his last reunion at age 100. On June 16, 1917, Doug married Susan P. Henry, who died in 1955. He later married Alice Riddick Thomas, who also predeceased him. He will be sadly missed by his son, Douglas R. Nichols Jr. '42, his daughter-in-law, Marjorie, and his granddaughter, Susan Ferriere, to whom he was devoted.

The Class of 1917