George William Dalton Jr. ’39

LAST HEARD FROM at the time of our 40th reunion, Bill died in Nov. 1990 in St. Augustine, Fla. "We learned this from his brother Jack Dalton '36, who told us that Bill had not communicated with him either in the last decade of his life.

Bill made his principal career in the navy. joining the V7 program in 1940, he served five years, most of it in the Pacific. Upon separation, he worked in NYC and Charlotte, N.C., but by 1949 had reentered the navy. During the Korean War, he was admiral's aide on the battleship WISCONSIN. In this period, he married Gwynn McTash. They were later divorced.

He served as commandant, 1st naval district, Boston, for several years, then resigned from the navy in 1958 as a commander, after a career which, he said in our 40th yearbook, "included all sorts of things, even ghostwriting speeches for high naval officers and Presidents of the United States. In answer to our question "What have you learned in 40 years?" he wrote, "To be a voracious reader and to harbor a conservative temperament." Those were his last words to us.

The Class of 1939