George H. Shields III ’31

George was born Feb. 7, 1910, in St. Louis, Mo., and died Jan. 20, 2001. He prepared at the St. Louis Country Day School and the Kent School. At Princeton he became involved in the football managerial competition, undergraduate athletic association, board of athletic control, and Cottage Club.

Following graduation, George worked for two years for the Boston firm of Scudder, Stevens and Clark and then three years for the NRA in Washington. He entered the Navy in Jan. 1941 and served as an industrial relations and personnel officer attached to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and the Bureau of Ships. He received a bureau citation and a Secnav ribbon for his work and held the rank of lieutenant-commander upon discharge in Sept. 1945.

Between jobs in the advertising business he managed to sneak in a couple of years ranching. But otherwise he was with the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency and finally the Gardner Advertising Agency until he retired in 1970.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to the surviving members of his family.

The Class of 1931