Gene Gamble ’44

Gene died of congestive heart complications Dec. 17, 2004, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 81.

He attended McKeesport [Pa.] High School, where he was president of the student council and active in debate. At Princeton he majored in politics, and was a member of WPRU, Whig-Clio, the Princeton Senate, the band, and Quadrangle Club. His roommates included Morgan Bird and Bill Hayes.

Gene earned his bachelor's and left for the Army in 1943; he proudly served three years with the Manhattan Project. He never married but "faced life as an adventurer, always seeking new challenges," a close niece recalled.

After beginning careers in finance and banking, he became an entrepreneur, owning at various times a boutique in Scottsdale, a men's store off Fifth Avenue in New York, a Scottsdale dude ranch, and an upscale restaurant in LaJolla, Calif. Gene told his family that "Princeton prepared him for a fully engaged life as a thinker and businessman." At his death, he held a reservation for a world cruise.

Gene is survived by a sister, Amy Lannan; a brother, Paden; two nephews; and three nieces. We are thankful for his times with us, wish him a tardy farewell, and send our condolences to his family.

The Class of 1944