Harold Edgar Stanard ’42

Clancy Stanard died in Florida Nov. 28, 2007, following a severe stroke.

Clancy came to Princeton from the Berkshire School. At Princeton he majored in modern languages, joined Dial Lodge, and roomed with Tom Rutter, Jack Guthrie, and Mac Roach. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Clancy enlisted in the Navy V-5 program and graduated as a Marine Corps pilot. In this capacity he was sent to the central Pacific, where he repeatedly attacked Japanese island installations as a pilot of F4U Corsair fighters. On one occasion his fuel line was shot out by ground fire. He was fished out of the Pacific by a passing minesweeper. By the end of the war, Clancy had been awarded 17 Air Medals and six Distinguished Flying Crosses.

At the onset of the Korean conflict he was called back into service. Again he flew combat aircraft. Some time thereafter he learned that his wife had died of bulbar poliomyelitis. He returned to civilian life and the care of two young daughters.

After his service, Clancy worked in life-insurance agency management before forming Stanard & Associates Insurance Agency in northern Virginia. His second wife, Alice, died in 2003. He later retired to Florida.

To his close friend, Gladys Hayes; his son, James; his daughters, Katherine Stanard and Sharon Nielsen; and five grandchildren; the class sends its condolences.