Gerald H. Murphy ’56

GERRY HOLLARD MURPHY passed away June 3, 1994, from small cell lymphoma. Gerry, a native of N.Y.C., came to Princeton from Deerfield Academy. He majored in history, joined Colonial Club, and lettered in cross-country. Following army service from 1956-58, Gerry completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia and did graduate work at the Univ. of Wisconsin.

He worked for the Foreign Service in Toronto; Washington; and Kinshasa, Zaire, then took a position as personnel director for the Allegany County (Md.) Board of Education. He then went to the Univ. of Iowa, where he handled the university's labor relations, he later worked for in the same field for the Univ. of the South, Calspan Corp., and SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

Gerry and his second wife, Nancy, shared a warm relationship with their extended family, made up of Gerry's four children, James, Mireille, Micheline, and Samantha, and Nancy's four, Brian, Lauren, George, and Tarin. To them and to Gerry's brother, Jerome '58, and his sister, Micheline M. Kuipers, we extend our condolences.