George R. Webster ’36

George died Jan. 30, 2002, at age 87. Born in Detroit to Judge Arthur Webster and Laura Belle Russell Webster, he graduated from Phillips Exeter in 1932. At Princeton he majored in chemical engineering and was a member of Quadrangle Club. In 1937 he received a master's from the U. of Michigan. He joined the Pyrofax Gas Division of Union Carbide, where he eventually became chief engineer. During WWII he worked on the Manhattan Project. In 1955 he participated in an atom bomb test in Nevada.

He served for 25 years on the board of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. He was treasurer of the Princeton Hospital Foundation, board president of Vail Valley Medical Center, and a benefactor of Princeton.

After many years of living in Princeton, he made Vail, Colo., his fulltime home in 1989. He was a lifelong swimmer. His hobbies included fly-fishing, ham radio, flying, navigating ocean sailing races, furniture reproductions, and miniature steam locomotives.

George is survived by a sister, Jane Pearce, daughters Deborah L. and Molly M., son Curtis M., and grandchildren Andrew Webster, Lindsay Webster '01, Christopher Schiotz, and Theo Webster.

The Class of 1936