Gail F. McHugh ’85

All who knew Gigi will recall her charming, dimpled smile, her passion for literature, and her generosity, and will struggle to reconcile her infectious vitality with her name's untimely appearance in this memorial, due to her death on Sept. 9, 1997.

While still a student at the Chapin School in NYC, Gigi appeared in several off-Broadway productions. Soon after her arrival at Princeton, she was cast in the Triangle Club's production of Cabaret. By her graduation, cum laude, in English, she had written and directed her own play as her senior thesis.

Those who were fortunate enough to study alongside Gigi were often struck by her uncanny ability to recite lines verbatim from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Beckett. Gigi was always game for a lively discussion or debate, and her insatiable curiosity was contagious.

After graduation, Gigi applied her talents as a teacher at St. Bernard's School in NYC, imparting her wealth of knowledge to "her boys" and directing them in their annual class play. She found a worthy outlet for her gifts of writing and painting when she founded her own greeting card company, G2 + Cat.

The Class of '85 extends its deepest sympathy to Gigi's mother, June Fiske McHugh, and her brothers, Burton Jr. and John, with whom we share the loss of this uniquely talented classmate.

The Class of 1985