Harold B. Spencer ’37

MINING ENGINEER and bird watcher Bebe Spencer died Dec. 17, 1993, of emphasema, leaving five children and seven grandchildren.

He came from a large Princeton family' with father '05 and brothers '30, '33, and '37. His wife, Adelaide, died in 1989. Also in 1989, he moved to a retirement manor in Salt Lake City, Utah. He prepared at Lawrenceville and majored in engineering at Princeton, taking secondgroup honors junior year and graduating with honors. He was a member of Elm.

Bebe headed west after graduation and worked a lease in Chief Consolidated Mine in Utah in the West Tintic district. Later he rose to be superintendent of the Desert Tungsten Co., mining that valuable element "with some success and many difficulties." In 1944, he transferred to the South Mountain Mining Co. in Jordan Valley, 10 miles from Boise, Idaho, mining zinc.

In 1947, he co-founded and was president and general manager of Centennial Development Co., doing shaft and tunnel work for mining companies all over the West, in conjunction with Jim Quigley '35. He traveled 50,000 miles a year on business. He described himself as part owner and manager of a mining construction and engineering firm for 35 years until his retirement in 1980, thereafter becoming involved in investment property management, including a small gold and silver mine in Idaho.

The Class of 1937