Harlan F. Stone II ’57

One of the grandsons and the namesake of the chief justice of the Supreme Court during the World War II years, Harlan died Jan. 31, 2024.

He came to Princeton from Poly Prep of Brooklyn and majored in English, graduating with honors. He was a member of Charter Club and the Pre-Law Society, but chose a writing career rather than the law.

After earning a master’s degree in English from Harvard, Harlan went to work as a reporter for newspapers in Stroudsburg, Pa., Danbury, Conn., and Providence, R.I. During this period he married Barnard College graduate Elizabeth Jennings. They had two children, Christopher and Emily. The family moved to Summit, N.J., when Harlan got a job in public relations for Esso (now Exxon Mobil). He spent most of his career in public relations at McGraw Hill in Manhattan. After a divorce, he was married for a short time to another woman, who died of cancer in the 1980s.

Harlan married a third time, to Helen Levin Galatan in 1991, and they moved to Woodside, N. Y. Harlan had a lifelong hobby of stamp collecting, attaining accolades from other philatelists for his impressive collection. Upon retirement he and his wife moved to Canton, Mass. He is survived by Helen, his two children, one grandchild, and his brother, Peter.