Francis Stuart Harmon ’54

Stu died April 2, 2016, at the Village at Summerville in South Carolina.

Born in Lynchburg, Va., he attended Horace Mann School for Boys. At Princeton, he majored in chemistry and was a member of Prospect Club. After graduation, he enrolled in the Navy officer candidate school in Newport, R.I. He was stationed aboard the USS Hancock in the Pacific fleet, where he was radar controller for combat air patrol in the Formosa Straits.

In 1957, he was assigned to teach chemistry at the Naval Academy, where he met his wife, Mary Ann French. Stu earned a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois, then taught at the Lawrenceville School. He worked as a consultant for Educational Testing Service and helped write a general science course at Princeton. He then became chairman of the science department at Charlotte Latin School. While there, he received distinguished teaching awards from Southern Methodist University and North Carolina State University.

Stu and his wife, Mary Ann, fell in love with the Silver Bay Association in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York and became permanent residents in 1995. His wife predeceased him in 1998.

The class is honored by his service to our country and extends condolences to his sons, Kendall and Randall; and three grandchildren.