Harold Christian Roser Jr. ’42

HAL DIED June 13, 1990, of heart failure at N.Y. Hospital. At the time of his death he was retired from the Exxon Corp., where he had worked since 1953. Prior to that he had spent ten years in the Foreign Service, serving both in Europe and Asia.

Hal came to Princeton via Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., and majored in politics in the School of Public and International Affairs.

Among the posts he held within Exxon were director and V.P. of Esso Eastern Chemicals, V.P. of Exxon Enterprises, V.P. of Exxon Education Foundation and Executive V.P. of American Cyrogenics of Atlanta, an Exxon affiliate. As a manager of Exxon's Community Development Programs, he initiated many cultural, educational, and philanthropic programs.

Hal was also active in the United Way and had been on the board of the N.Y. Blood Center. Following his retirement from Exxon in 1982, he helped organize and develop Business Radio Network. Hal and his family divided their time between Manhattan and Southampton, L.I.

To his wife, Cecilia, and his son, Lorin '70, the Class extends its sincerest sympathies.

The Class of 1942