Edward Carroll Stollenwerck ’37

Enthusiastic Princetonian Stoney Stollenwerck died Oct. 5, 1996. He leaves his wife, Mary Joe, whom he married in 1939, daughter Mary, sons Richard '65 and James, and eight grandchildren. His Princeton work included running class dinners, class executive committee, Annual Giving agent in Greenwich, Conn., class v.p. 195257, member of class council, 1953 Million Special Gifts Committee, and attendant at fatherson dinners. He was most generous to Princeton and to Wilbraham Monson Academy, of which he was a trustee.

At Lawrenceville, Stoney was on the crew and the football team. At Princeton he majored in psychology, with second group honors. He was on the lacrosse team and v.p. of Cottage Club.

He attended engineering school at Columbia. He was with Taylor, Bates & Co. and Argus Research Corp. before becoming a pre-Pearl Harbor volunteer. In 1942 he was at Ft. Benning in OCS as a technical sergeant along with Jack Heminway. He participated in the Normandy landing and was in the Infantry through northern France, the Ardennes, and the Rhineland. He retired as a captain after four and a half years.

His major career, however, was in investment banking with Laird & Co., of which he was chairman and CEO, till his retirement in 1972 to Hobe Sound, Fla.

The Class of 1937