H. Hunter Craig Jr. ’44

Hunt died Apr. 18 in Orleans, Mass., his Cape Cod home since the early 1970s, where he had been involved in real estate and was very active in community affairs.

At Exeter he was active in soccer, baseball, and the Glee Club, and continued similar varsity sports at Princeton. He was a member of Tiger Inn and left in the spring of 1942 to become a marine fighter pilot, serving 33 and a half years. For 20 months he flew out of Guam and off the carrier Wasp. Returning to his hometown of Plainfield, N.J., in the furniture business, he married, had six children, and subsequently had a seventh with his second wife.

One of the most engaging of all classmates, most of his postwar life was bedeviled by bi-polar manic depressiveness, which caused "much suffering to me and all those close. Thank God for lithium."

The Cape Codder obituary called him "the watchdog of the board of selectmen, where at meetings, with his gravelly voice, he offered thoughts and ideas with respect to others' differing viewpoints, and always with humor. . . . He often cruised the town with his dog, Georgie, keeping an eye on things and visiting people who could use a visit."

To his children, Hollise, Lois, Pamela, Hunter III, Peter, Meredith, and Crystelle Lee, and many grandchildren, the class extends sympathy.

The Class of 1944