George Oram Jr. ’57

George died Oct. 3, 2015, due to heart issues.

While at Princeton, he majored in sociology, was a member of the Outing Club, played intramural sports, and joined Dial. He roomed with Robin Lincoln and Bill Jones during his senior year.

He started work at IBM in 1957 and worked there until 1965, taking a two-year hiatus to serve in the Army. After this he headed computer systems for Johns Manville, where he worked with a computer that took up entire floors of New York high-rise buildings.

He then joined the Nixon administration as the administrative director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, where he worked until 1978 and was a committee chair on the electronic fund transfer commission. In 1979, he started at PMI Mortgage Insurance Management as vice president of data processing, then went to work at Sears as vice president of human resources before rejoining PMI in 1980. He also founded a data-processing company and received a captain’s license from the Coast Guard. In 1986, he founded Elmwood Realty and retired 19 years later.

George and his first wife, Joan, had two children, Wendy and Thomas, who survive him. He also is survived by his second wife, Mary, and their children Elizabeth and Georgina. To them all, the class extends its condolences.