George F. Lauritzen ’37

SOYBEAN MOGUL George Lauritzen died May 31, 1992, of cancer complications. His wife, Jay, whom he married in 1936, died in 1987. His son Peter P. '62 and grandson Frederick live in Venice, Italy. George is also survived by his brother John '40.

George starred in hockey, baseball (as a pitcher with record number of nohit games), and singing at Lawrenceville. He continued all three activities at Princeton on both freshman and varsity teams. He left us at the end of sophomore year, briefly playing professional hockey and first working in the bakery supply business and then manufacturing paper boxes. In 1943 he started his own company, buying and selling soybeans, despite the obstacles of government control and cut throat competition. This expanded to include manufacture of dried egg and dried milk products, to be sold to the baking industry all over the world. He sold the company to the H.V.R. Division of Clorox and became a consultant to the food industry.

On the side, George was active with Cub Scouts, the board of the Princeton Club of Chicago, Princeton Schools and Scholarship work in Oak Park, the $53 million special gifts committee, and in 1957, he ran the local Community chest and was chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the playgrounds in Oak Park. In 1956 he joined in effort to raise money to build a cage at Princeton, now fulfilled in Jadwin Gym. He was to survive a raucous pre20th reunion ride on Lake Michigan on his boat with 11 classmates. The same group chartered a railroad car to return.

Wehave lost a fine Princetonian and send our sympathies to Peter, Frederick, and John.

The Class of 1937