George Wells McMurray II ’66

Wells died April 28, 2025, after a long battle with the effects of prostate cancer.

Wells followed his father, George Wells McMurray ’36, to Princeton after graduating from the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla., where he played on the football, baseball, and soccer teams.

At Princeton, he majored in English and wrote his senior thesis on the humor of James Joyce. He belonged to Dial Lodge and played freshman soccer and lightweight football. His roommates included Dave Corcoran and Mark Fleder.

At the time of his death, Wells lived in Santa Fe, N.M., having retired from a 40-plus-year career as a college counselor director, coach, and teacher. He reported in our 10th-reunion yearbook that he was director of admissions at New York’s Trinity School, and in our 25th-reunion yearbook that he was director of college counseling at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas.

Wells is survived by his wife, Susan, whom he married senior year; and son Patrick. The class extends our condolences to them.