Francis Bernard Ward ’29
BERNIE DIED on Dec. 30, 1990. He came from an extremely Princetonoriented family (his father and three uncles were alumni). Bernie left Princeton in 1926 and went to Northwestern, and then to Marquette, where he graduated. He worked with Price Waterhouse and Scovell Wellington and passed his C.P.A. exams in New York in 1941. Railroads were a special hobby, and he received his M.A. from George Washington Univ. government school for a thesis on railroad consolidation. During the war he was in the R.F.C. and after the war was a teacher at George Washington Univ. but then went back to Marquette as professor of finance in the school of business, In 1934 he married Cecelia Marie Cash, and she survives, as well as their daughter, Anne Marie Ward Maiken, of New Mexico. The Class extends its sincere sympathy to Bernie's family.
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