Graham G. Berry ’35

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GRAHAM G. "GRAY" BERRY DIED of a massive stroke Apr. 26, 1993. He prepared for college at Kent School and majored in history at Princeton. He was a member of Arbor Inn, played in the band, and wrote for the Triangle Club and the TIGER. His roommate was Chuck Nolan.

Gray followed a career as an advertising copywriter and account director with various agencies, several times winning honors for creativity in industrial advertising. He had military service with the coast artillery in Alaska and Virginia, leaving active duty in 1945 as a major.

In 1943 at Bruton Church in Williamsburg, Gray married Cynthia Bastine of White Plains, and they lived in New Rochelle for many years. They had a son, Graham Jr. (Pete) '66, who is following a career in the Episcopal ministry. Gray himself was very active as a church writer and lay reader, and had hobbies of amateur radio, family genealogy, and travel. He and Cyndy retired to Ormond Beach in 1975; she died in 1991. The class extends its belated but sincere condolences to Pete and the grandsons Matthew and Daniel.

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