Gardiner Trowbridge II ’49

NOTE: The following is a corrected version of a memorial published in the Jan. 27, 1999, issue of PAW.

Gar Trowbridge, son of the late Arthur Lusk Trowbridge '13, died Oct. 23, 1995.

He prepared at St. Paul's School, after which he was with the American Field Service in Italy during WWII. At Princeton he majored in politics, was a member of Cap & Gown, and was on the varsity squash team. In 1949, in his junior year, he left Princeton to join an advertising agency in NYC and during the next six years tried his hand at banking, public relations, photography, real estate, and modeling for commercial advertisements, working on both coasts.

Back east in 1955, he re-entered the academic world, graduating from Columbia U. in 1959 with a BS, summa cum laude, in psychology. At the top of his class, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Gar married Marianna Ball in 1956, and following graduation from Columbia, moved his family -- now including a stepson -- to Berkeley, Calif., where he studied for his PhD in clinical psychology.

They continued to live in the San Rafael, Calif., area until his death. To our knowledge, Gar is survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. They have our deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1949