H. Larry Wentz ’59

Larry died Oct. 17, 2014, in Painesville, Ohio.

Born in Altoona, Pa., Larry prepared for Princeton at Eichelberger High School in Hanover, where he was class president both his junior and senior years. He graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from Princeton, where he served on the Undergraduate Schools Committee, played in the University Band, debated at Whig-Clio, and ate at Tower. He earned an MBA from Harvard, then served six months in the Army at Fort Gordon Crime Lab, where he said he solved “not a single crime.”

Larry started his career in chemicals, and there he remained, working for Exxon, DuPont, and Sohio (now BP Chemicals). He retired in 1994 as vice president from Sohio, where he had managed product trading and control, crude oil trading and transportation, and the commercial-composites division. When the strain of retirement proved too great, Larry joined Brittany Corp., where he remained for several years.

One of Larry’s passions, which he shared with Joy, his wife of 53 years, was riding their Icelandic horses, often performing drill routines (some of which they wrote and designed) in shows, and riding in the indoor arena that he built.

Larry is survived by Joy and his sons, Jon and Fred. The class sends its sympathy.