H. Dwight Neill ’54

Dwight Neill died May 30, 2012, from lung cancer at Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, Ohio. He had his larynx removed 20 years previously for cancer. He learned to speak with a mechanical device.

Born in Middletown, he graduated from Middletown Senior High School. Dwight left Princeton at the completion of his second year to enter the Army and spent two years in the Signal Corps. He returned and completed his bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1956. He was a member of Tiger Inn and was chairman of its social committee.

After graduation, he returned to Middletown to begin a lifelong career with the First National Bank. In his first year there, he wrote and integrated computer programs for all of the bank’s branches. By the time of his retirement he was vice president.

Dwight loved doing math and spending time with his nieces and nephews in that activity. He remained devoted to Princeton and attended every class reunion.

The class extends gratitude for his service to our country and our sympathy to his surviving sister, Nancy Burdick; and his nieces and nephews, Elizabeth and David Burdick, David Neill, and Leslie Thomas. His brother David predeceased him in 1990.