Gareld Robertson Herrin ’51

Gary died May 20, 2005, in Duxbury, Mass., of congestive heart failure.

Born July 7, 1929, in New York City, he came to us from Ridgewood (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he earned a bachelor's in chemical engineering and was a member of the American Institute of Engineers, the Engineering Society, the Republican Club, and Campus Club. He roomed with Robert Brenner, Richard Hershey, Harry Koch, E.W. Wilkins, and A.P. Davis.

Gary was a process engineer with M.W. Kellogg Ltd. from 1951 to 1963, taking time out for a tour of duty as a Navy lieutenant from 1953 to 1956. He began working with the Badger Co. in 1963, starting in the United States, then transferring to the Netherlands and to England, before returing here as manager of process engineering in 1972. By 1978 the Herrins had returned to The Hague, and in 1993 Gary retired when Badger was acquired by Raytheon.

Gary married Caroline Biddle James in 1957. She and their four children, Mimi McCarthy, John, Kenneth, and Janet Partridge, survive him, as do seven grandchildren and his sister, Barbara, wife of Sam Ertel '53.

The Class of 1951