Gilmore Semmes Hamill III ’31

"Red" Hamill was born May 18, 1908, in Oakland, Md., and died July 16, 1998, in Moraga, Calif. He prepared at the Hill School.

At Princeton, Red was on the freshman basketball and baseball teams, JV basketball and baseball teams, and a member of Tiger Inn.

After Princeton, he worked for Reynolds Aluminum Co. as director of personnel in Sheffield, Ala. For a time he was connected with Olin Industries in East Alton, Ill., and then joined the Carborundum Co. and became Pittsburgh district manager. His last job was with the Shenango Furnace Co. in Pittsburgh where he remained until he retired in 1971.

He belonged to the St. Clair Country Club, the Pittsburgh Athletic Assn., the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club, all of Pittsburgh, and the Niagara Club in Niagara Falls.

Red lost his wife, Fran, in 1974, but he is survived by two sons, Gilmore S. IV and David G., and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1931