Foster Lincoln Johnson ’44

Foster Lincoln Johnson died Jan. 28, 1996, at his home in Greenwich, Conn., of complications from prostate cancer with which he had suffered over an extended period. Linc prepared at Taft, where his interest in sports carried over to Princeton. In addition to baseball and hockey, he was active in numerous campus organizations, was elected class president in sophomore and junior years and v.p. our senior year, serving until 1951. His roommates were E. Kelley, W. Tiernan, J. A. Myers, J. Crawford, and R. Brown; his club was Cottage.

Linc majored in geology and received his AB in 1944. He spent three years in the Marine Corps, one of them in the Pacific. Recalled for Korea, he was discharged with the rank of captain. Beginning in merchandising with B. Altman & Co. in NYC, Linc was soon attracted to the insurance field and spent the rest of his career as a selfemployed insurance broker.

A host of classmates attended a moving memorial service to Linc, with Ed Bigler, Jim Cobbs, and Ned Kelley ushering. To his widow, Deirdre; his son, Frederick; his daughters, Susan Snyder and Jermain Lawrie; his brother, Robert; his sister, Helen, six grandchildren, five stepchildren, and six step-grandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1944