George R. Bishop Jr. ’44 *52

Reg died at Stonebridge at Montgomery, N.J. July 4, 2012.

After graduating from Episcopal Academy, he was active at Princeton in publications, track, Whig-Clio, St. Paul’s Society, Dial Lodge, and ROTC. He majored in modern languages and roomed first with Tom McMillan and then with Lew Kraft. An 80th Division Field Artillery officer for three years, he received a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, and postwar became a lieutenant colonel.

Reg graduated with highest honors in 1946 and earned a Ph.D. in modern languages and literatures from Princeton in 1952. He began teaching languages at Rutgers, became assistant dean of the college, but after 20 years in academic administration he returned to full-time teaching and became chairman of the French department for six years. He married Alice Elgin in 1952.

In Princeton he was warden of the vestry at Trinity Episcopal Church, co-chair of its 21st-Century Fund, helped found Trinity Counseling Service, and for 26 years, first as co-chair with wife Alice, he chaired Trinity’s annual rummage sale.

He attended 60 reunions, was chairman once, our co-chair for the 25th, and was class president.

Predeceased by Alice, he is survived by daughters Anne Bishop Faynberg, and Charlotta and Alice Bishop. The class mourns the passing of a great Princetonian.