George C. Palmer ’44

George Palmer died Jan. 6, 1998, of a heart attack following bypass surgery. He was 75.

He came to us from St. Paul's School, and roomed with Dick Wallower and Harc Waller. At Princeton, he majored in politics and belonged to Charter Club. George left Princeton in 1943 with his AB and entered the Navy as a salvage officer and diver in the north Atlantic and south Pacific. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1948, joined E.F. Hutton and Co. in NYC as a stockbroker, and retired in 1985 as a corporate v.p. and branch manager. George was an avid sailor and had been president of the Great South Bay Yacht Racing Assn. and commodore of the Sayville Yacht Club. He also enjoyed wood carving, but, when he wasn't traveling or gardening, surf fishing was his passion, and he spent hours fishing at his beach house on Fire Island.

To his wife, Althea, whom he married in 1981; his sons, John, Robert, Thomas, and Christopher; his daughters, Susan, Catherine, and Virginia; his stepdaughter, Pamela; his stepson, David; his brother, James; his sisters, Anita and Nancy; and his 11 grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1944